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: 2026-04-13T09:21:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 20.03.26 08:50, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 18.03.26 13:47, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I have committed the rest of this patch set, except the CLDR version 
> change, for which I will wait until the next release expected in April, 
> as usual.

I don't think there is a CLDR 49 release coming soon (as I'm inferring 
from the cadence of tags in their Git repository), so I have committed 
the update to 48.2.




Commits

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  1. Update Unicode data to CLDR 48.2

  2. Update Unicode data to Unicode 17.0.0

  3. Update RELEASE_CHANGES

  4. Implement unaccent Unicode data update in meson

  5. doc: Fix capitalization of Unicode

  6. Fix Python deprecation warning