UTC public review issues to close January 2

[Daniel Bünzli]

On 19 December 2023 at 06:34:55, Doug Ewell via Unicode (unicode at corp.unicode.org) wrote:

> This is a shame. I don’t know how widely the XML files were adopted, but I certainly found  
> them easier to process than the traditional Unicode data files.

For me this is only half the story. As I wrote in my feedback on the PRI, UAX42 is the only place where you can easily find out the type of a property and where their evolution from version to version is carefuly chronicled. This is a golden ressource if you maintain APIs that expose or make use of these properties.

Regarding how much it is used, it’s unclear but if you search for the various compressed and uncompressed file names on code hosting platforms, it’s far from anecdotic.

Best,

Daniel