But my first reaction to the question is to ask whether Unicode
character blocks are the most useful thing to map. They're rather
arbitrary, with things like Latin script split up across numerous
blocks largely due to historical accident.
Mapping the Script property to char classes would seem much more
useful, IMO.
Yeah, there's some discussion in
https://github.com/Pomax/ucharclasses/pull/12 to consolidate several of
the blocks that come with "...extended..." blocks, although even then
that might be passing the buck: Unicode seems to have picked up in terms
of landing new versions with more and more languages (as well as
non-languages) leading to more and more blocks, many of which count as
new scripts, so it might simply be a matter of a few years until we
cross the charclass limit again even if we switch to scripts rather than
pure blocks.
- Pomax
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