Unicode update of width and other character properties

[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.

> 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.

There's probably also a bit more to discuss before changing how this
works since it affects all targets using wide char functions.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat
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