Re: Unicode update of width and other character properties

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Aug  7 21:18, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 07.08.2017 um 12:30 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> > On Aug  6 07:36, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > this is a proposal to update wcwidth and the character properties functions
> > > isw*/towupper/towlower to Unicode 10.0, as discussed in the mail thread
> > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-07/msg00366.html,
> > > as well as to simplify automatic generation of respective tables for an
> > > easier update step.
> > > Table size is moderate (using ranges for character properties) but there is
> > > still an option to reduce the two big tables in size.
> > As per the aforementioned discussion the table sizes are at least
> > twice as big, so this should be done with all due caution towards
> > the goals of smaller targets.
> If I'm going to implement the packed versions, they will be even smaller
> than the current tables.
> 
> > > The patch can be retrieved from http://towo.net/cygwin/charprops10.zip .
> > That's not how it works.  Please create a git patch series and post it here.
> Any howto available, please? What's the git URL,

  https://cygwin.com/git.html

> how to produce the desired patch format/series.

Just as with any other git-based project:

  $ git co -b my-stuff
  [hack, hack, hack]
  $ git commit [in useful chunks]
  $ git format-patch -X (X == number of commits)

> And then the patch would be included here by email?

Yes:

$ git send-email --to="newlib@sourceware.org"


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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