- Added code to use the parentLocales data in supplementalData.xml to determine the "parent locale ID" to use when
the requested resource bundle is not present (ICU-21126).
- Added code to change the parent-chain search path to handle the script better (ICU-21125; algorithm was described
in CLDR-15265):
- The base search patch is now ll_Ssss_RR -> ll_RR -> ll_Ssss -> ll -> root
- If the requested script is not the default script for the requested language and region, we automatically
avoid fallbacks that will implicitly change the script.
- Added new code to the CLDR-to-ICU data generation tool to generate source code, and used it to generate the lookup
tables for the new resource-fallback logic (we can't use the existing resource files for this, since that would
involve opening a resource bundle while trying to open another resource bundle). The data-generation stuff is
intended to be generic enough to allow for us to generate more static data tables in the future.
- Commented out a few collator tests, and changed one resource bundle test, because they're incompatible with the
new fallback logic (specifically, the default-script logic).
This is the normal standard way in C, C++ as well as Java and there's no
longer any reason for ICU to be different. The various internal macros
providing custom boolean constants can all be deleted and code as well
as documentation can be updated to use lowercase true/false everywhere.
In this PR, I am updating the version number from 70.0.1 for the BRS task.
Previously, we had frontloaded part of this, so the diff in this PR are not as numerous.
It has also been decided that we should differentiate frontloaded tasks and RC tasks by having the version numbers being:
Frontload version number: XX.X.X (70.0.1 -> Major.minor.patch)
RC/GA version number: XX.X (70.1 -> Major.minor)
I've added some documentation for this, for future releases :)
- 7 new properties: API constants & property names
- u_stringHasBinaryProperty(s, property) & UCharacter.hasBinaryProperty(s, property)
- two additional source data files
- new genprops part for writing new binary data file uemoji.icu
- data for existing emoji properties moved from uprops.icu (hardcoded in C++) to uemoji.icu (always loaded)
- new EmojiProps implementation
