Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:

>>>>>> On Sun, 07 Aug 2011, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>>     Could somebody please explain how this issue is different from
>>     the recent one with the CEDET grammar files?
>
>> According to my not totally reliable memory, we concluded that both
>> forms of these files were equally valid as the "source code",
>> because they were equally handy for making any changes.
>
> Hm, for example lisp/international/uni-name.el doesn't look like "the
> preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". The file
> rather has the appearence of line noise. ;-)

Pretty much so.  Starting comment:

;; Copyright (C) 1991-2009 Unicode, Inc.
;; This file was generated from the Unicode data files at
;; http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/.
;; See lisp/international/README for the copyright and permission notice.

Followed by something looking like line noise indeed.

The respective README says

The following files in this directory are derived from the Unicode
Data File at http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt,
downloaded on 2006-05-23:

  charprop.el uni-bidi.el uni-category.el uni-combining.el
  uni-comment.el uni-decimal.el uni-decomposition.el uni-digit.el
  uni-lowercase.el uni-mirrored.el uni-name.el uni-numeric.el
  uni-old-name.el uni-titlecase.el uni-uppercase.el

These files were generated from UnicodeData.txt using unidata-gen.el,
which is not included in the Emacs distribution; it can be found in
the admin/unidata directory of the Emacs source repository at
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/

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David Kastrup