From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: describe-char and unicode data Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 20:22:09 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200305121122.UAA00134@etlken.m17n.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052738639 26443 80.91.224.249 (12 May 2003 11:23:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 11:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 12 13:23:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19FBPQ-0006sA-00 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 13:23:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19FBVo-0005kz-00 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 13:30:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FBPB-00065K-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 12 May 2003 07:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FBOj-00061e-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2003 07:23:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FBOT-0005op-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2003 07:22:58 -0400 Original-Received: from tsukuba.m17n.org ([192.47.44.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FBNu-0005br-00; Mon, 12 May 2003 07:22:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2])h4CBMAo18812; Mon, 12 May 2003 20:22:10 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) h4CBM9A14716; Mon, 12 May 2003 20:22:09 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id UAA00134; Mon, 12 May 2003 20:22:09 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 11 May 2003 08:55:33 -0400) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.2.92 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13807 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13807 In article , Richard Stallman writes: > Would a patch that expands that to also show the relevant data from > UnicodeData.txt be accepted? > Sure, unless Handa sees some problem with it--provided that > UnicodeData.txt has a license that lets us use it. I see no problem with such a patch as far as there's no license problem. > Step one would be code to convert UnicodeData.txt to a suitable elisp > structure, generating a unicodedata.el file. Given that, the > additional logic in describe-char is trivial. > That method would use a lot of space in the Lisp world. > It might be better to load UnicodeData.txt into a buffer > and search it, then kill the buffer. As UnicodeData.txt is less than 1M-byte, the above methos will be ok, but Unihan.dat is about 26M-byte which, I think, is too big even for just including in the Emacs distribution. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org