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bug#54111: guile bundles (a compiled version of) UnicodeData.txt and bin
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#54111: guile bundles (a compiled version of) UnicodeData.txt and binaries |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:47:56 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Tim,
Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:
> Well, I don’t consider myself an Awk person, but I had to implement it
> for Gash-Utils, so I know it well enough! This may not be the most
> idiomatic Awk program, but to my eyes it is no less readable than the
> Perl version.
You rock!
[...]
> It runs with “gawk --posix”. If I run “gawk --lint”, I get warnings,
> but I’m pretty sure they are spurious (they may even be Gawk bugs, but I
> would have to double check the relevant specs and docs). If the lint
> warnings are a problem, you can append the empty string to the argument
> of the ‘hex’ function to make them go away. Also, (as a bonus) as of
> commit 62c56f9 the Gash-Utils version of Awk can run this script! :)
Incredible. :-)
> Of course, to use this script as part of the Guile build, someone™ will
> have to double check that we can legally redistribute the Unicode data
> file (probably okay, but always good to check), and update the build
> rules to generate the C file. I can’t guarantee that I’ll get to it....
I’ll check with Andy if he’s fine with this option. Would you like to
turn it into a patch against Guile? If not, I could do that.
> # unidata_to_charset.awk --- Compute SRFI-14 charsets from UnicodeData.txt
> #
> # Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Is this correct? (Maybe yes because it’s a translation of the original
Perl script, right?)
Thanks a lot!
Ludo’.