RFR: 8261621: Delegate Unicode history from JLS to j.l.Character [v2]

[Roger Riggs]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:56:49 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The table is informative and should not be construed as specification.
>> The wording "has supported" should be sufficient.
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>> The table is informative and should not be construed as specification.
>> The wording "has supported" should be sufficient.
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> If this is not specification then doesn't that imply that any provider of any version of OpenJDK would be free to support, or not, whatever version of Unicode that they chose? Surely a minimum supported version must be part of the platform specification?

The current version of Unicode is specified in a normative statement just before the table.
"Character information is based on the Unicode Standard, version 13.0."

The table is not a specification of past revisions.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2538