ANN: unicode 2.8

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/31/2020 9:36 AM, garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk wrote:
> unicode is a simple python command line utility that displays
> properties for a given unicode character, or searches
> unicode database for a given name.
...
> Changes since previous versions:
> 
>   * display ASCII table (either traditional with --ascii or the new
>     EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement version with --brexit-ascii)

Are you reproducing it with bugs included?
How is that of any use to anyone?
A tweet linking the treaty annex page
https://twitter.com/thejsa_/status/1343291595899207681
A stackoverflow question and discussion of the bugs and oddities.
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/61178/why-does-the-eu-uk-trade-deal-have-the-7-bit-ascii-table-as-an-appendix

The likely answer is that the treaty writers copy-pasted from 
decades-old docs and could not be bothered to link to the actual ISO 
standard.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy