Update wctype functions to Unicode 5.2?
Jeff Johnston
jjohnstn@redhat.com
Fri Feb 12 22:53:00 GMT 2010
On 12/02/10 03:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> the wctype tables in the files utf8alpha.h, utf8print.h, and utf8punct.h
> are based on data from the Unicode 3.2 standard. This is really old
> now, we're at Unicode 5.2 right now. A comment in the files claims they have
> been "generated" from the unicode.txt file. What's missing is the
> information how they have been generated and where the tool is to do
> that. If we had that tool available, I'd like to ask we could generate
> a new set of tables based on Unicode 5.2.
>
Sorry, I looked for this, but couldn't find it. It was so long ago
(2002) and I don't even remember the name of it. I tried looking for
the unicode.txt file or any scripts that sounded like they would do this
work. Not on my current machine or the one before it.
> Additionally the functions iswblank, iswspace, towlower and towupper
> could need some revamp. If an update of the aforementioned tables to
> Unicode 5.2 is not a big deal, I'd volunteer to update these functions
> as required.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Corinna
>
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