On 1/24/23 16:28, Paul Gilmartin via tz wrote:
The recent patch catches a couple of instances of ‘°’ that I missed back in 2018.
That came to my mail reader as <https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/b0/index.htm>. Had you composed it as such, or did an MTA fix it for you?
The former. I copied and pasted from TZDB’s source. I had originally composed it in the source by typing “C-x 8 RET DEGREE SIGN RET” into Emacs. Another way I could have typed it would have been “Caps-Lock o o” since I have Caps Lock bound to Compose in GNOME. However, Emacs supports arbitrary Unicode code points better than GNOME does so I tend to do things the Emacs way even though it’s more painful for this particular case. In writing this email I noticed that we don’t need UNUSUAL_OK_IPA any more. That macro was put in when the ‘europe’ file had the commentary “common pronunciation in Ukrainian, namely [ˈkɪjiu̯] (IPA)”. Since the commentary no longer opines on how to pronounce “Київ” in Ukrainian it no longer uses “u̯”, so I installed the attached further patch.