requests.exceptions.ConnectionError (unicode.org is down)
Currently, unicode.org is facing technical issues and its technical documents are not available
This, in turn, makes emojientities
fail, also in bdist
packaging.
APRIL 10, 2020 TECHNICAL ALERT: the Unicode Consortium’s technical website is hosted in a data center that has experienced a catastrophic failure. We are working to get back online, but this may take a couple weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience.
(quote from home.unicode.org, April 14)