[submitted at http://bugs.debian.org/171061]

The version mentioned is CVS 021121 HEAD

unicodedata.so is obviously built with older
UnicodeData.txt file,
and does not match new characters introduced in Unicode
3.2.
To fix it, I copied UnicodeData.txt (conveniently
provided by perl-modules
in /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/unicore/UnicodeData.txt) to
the top of
unpacked python2.3 source package, renamed it to
UnicodeData-Latest.txt,
ran "python Tools/unicode/makeunicodedata.py" and then
recompiled
python2.3 package. This should probably be addressed
upstream as well.

before:
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.name(u'\u20b0')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  ValueError: no such name

after:
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.name(u'\u20b0')
'GERMAN PENNY SIGN'

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Why is Debian shipping a "python2.3", when
Python 2.3 hasn't been released yet (it's not
even in alpha)?

(the Unicode database in the current Python
CVS has already been updated...)

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Are you sure you are using the current CVS? In my copy of 
the CVS, renaming to UnicodeData-Latest is not necessary, 
and GERMANY PENNY SIGN is included in the database.

To verify that you use the current CVS, please report the 
value of unicodedata.unidata_version.

Fredrik, Debian has the Python 2.3 package only in 
its "unstable" (and "testing") distribution, see

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/python2.3.ht
ml

It is common to provide Debian packages for CVS versions of 
software in "unstable", so that the Debian developers can 
analyse effects of upcoming versions on their software.

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The CVS version (as mentioned) was 021121 HEAD. Closing the
report, as this has changed six days ago.

Frederik: Debian currently has 1.5, 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3, 2.1
beeing the default in the released (stable) distribution,
and 2.2 the default in the "unstable" distribution. I did
put 2.3 in unstable to ease building third party modules
using the new version.

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It may not matter anymore, but...

In the Debian package 2.2.94-1exp1, the changelog indicates
that it was from CVS 021120. In that version, GERMANY PENNY
SIGN is already in the Unicode database.