[tex-live] New Unicode support library ICU 58

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Here is an announcement from the Unicode consortium today that is
likely relevant for the TeX Live 2017 work that will start in just a
few months:

>> ...
>> ICU LogoUnicode� ICU version 58 has just been released! ICU is the main 
>> avenue for many software products and libraries 
>> <http://site.icu-project.org/#TOC-Who-Uses-ICU-> to support the world's 
>> languages, implementing both the latest version of the Unicode encoding 
>> standard and of the Unicode locale data (CLDR).
>> 
>> ICU 58 provides full support for the recent Unicode 9.0 release with 
>> 7,500 new characters and many property improvements. It covers the 
>> Unicode 9.0 emoji characters --- plus the latest draft version of Emoji 
>> 4.0 --- for a total of 2,444 emoji characters and sequences, including 
>> the new ZWJ sequences for gendered professions; ICU word & line 
>> breaking is updated for Emoji 4.0. ICU 58 incorporates the latest 
>> version 30 of Unicode CLDR locale data with a significant increase in 
>> data coverage.
>> 
>> There are a number of new APIs, including ones for measurement system 
>> unit display names (such as "acre" or "Hektar" in 80 languages), and 
>> improvements in performance and robustness. For Java, the unit tests are 
>> converted to JUnit, for easier and faster integration into test suites.
>> 
>> For details please see http://site.icu-project.org/download/58
>> 
>> http://blog.unicode.org/2016/10/icu-58-released.html
>> ...

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