2.3: test test_normalization failed

[Michael Hudson]

hjwidmaier at web.de (Hans-Joachim Widmaier) writes:

> Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote in message news:<7h33cg4403q.fsf at pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk>...
> 
> [test failure with 4.0.0]
> 
> > This is known: Python from CVS explicitly requests the 3.2 file.
> 
> Maybe test_normalization.py should look at the file version itself and
> tell the unsuspicious that it really wants the 3.2 version.

It's kind of hard to do that for the already released 2.3 :-)

> > I would imagine it being something like unicode 4 adding more
> > characters, but Python 2.3 -- being built on 3.2 normalization data --
> > doesn't know how these new character compose or decompose.  Just a
> > guess.
> 
> Sounds reasonable. So the 2.3 normalization is just incomplete
> regarding the newest standard.

Yep.  I would guess it likely that 2.4 will be up to date again, but
it's not really my field.

Cheers,
mwh

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