Re: BUG #15548: Unaccent does not remove combining diacritical characters

On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 at 21:26, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
wrote:

> +1 for updating to the latest file from time to time.  After
> http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/11383 makes it into a new release,
> our special_cases() function will have just the two Cyrillic
> characters, which should almost certainly be handled by adding
> Cyrillic to the ranges we handle via the usual code path, and DEGREE
> CELSIUS and DEGREE FAHRENHEIT.  Those degree signs could possibly be
> extracted from Unicode.txt (or we could just forget about them), and
> then we could drop special_cases().
>
Well, when I modified the code to handle the new version of the
transliteration file, I discovered that was sufficient to handle the old
version as well. That's not the way things usually go, but I'll take it. ;-)

I've attached two patches, one to update generate_unaccent_rules.py, and
another that updates unaccent.rules from the v34 transliteration file. I'll
be happy to add these to the CF. Does anyone need to review them and give
me approval before I do so?

Best wishes,
Hugh