Re: Unicode update and some tooling improvements

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

To: Alexander Borisov <lex.borisov@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2026-03-18T12:47:38Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 13.03.26 11:11, Alexander Borisov wrote:
> 26.02.2026 23:36, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> This is the annual update of the Unicode data.  I also worked a bit on 
>> the tooling.  The update-unicode target under meson did not update the 
>> data in contrib/unaccent/, so I added that.  I also fixed a Python 
>> deprecation warning in the generation script and made some light 
>> changes in the surrounding documentation.
> 
> Installed, tested, checked it out.
> I hope I'm not late.
> 
> "[PATCH 3/6] Implement unaccent Unicode data update in meson"
> 
> The idea of raising the minimum Meson version is good.
> But it seems like we can do without raising the version.
> As I understand it, the minimum version is being raised because of
> .replace(), but it can be successfully replaced here with the following
> construct:
> cldr_version_dashed = '-'.join(CLDR_VERSION.split('.'))
> url = cldr_baseurl.format(cldr_version_dashed, f)

Good idea.  I committed it that way, without a meson version change for 
the moment.

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Update Unicode data to CLDR 48.2
- b47854b6992d 19 (unreleased) landed
Update Unicode data to Unicode 17.0.0
- 57ee39795398 19 (unreleased) landed
Update RELEASE_CHANGES
- 9b406a9e4854 19 (unreleased) landed
Implement unaccent Unicode data update in meson
- 1b0c269f2e4f 19 (unreleased) landed
doc: Fix capitalization of Unicode
- 90ca7c1429d6 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix Python deprecation warning
- 16686a853f1b 19 (unreleased) landed