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+- [MetaTools] Fixed bug in buildUCD.py script whereby the first non-header line of some UCD text file was being skipped. This affected in particular the U+00B7 (MIDDLE DOT) entry of ScriptExtensions.txt (#3756).
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 4.55.7 (released 2025-01-28)
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