From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: describe-char and unicode data
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 02:24:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87znltpfbc.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19EqMX-0002WZ-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 11 May 2003 08:55:33 -0400")
>>>>> "rms" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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.
rms> That method would use a lot of space in the Lisp world. It
rms> might be better to load UnicodeData.txt into a buffer and
rms> search it, then kill the buffer.
In XEmacs/UTF-2000, the Lisp databases (which contain a lot more than
simply Unicode and Mule databases, and XEmacs is substantially less
space efficient than Emacs, but still...) take up 20-25MB. You want
this not in Lisp.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-11 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-09 18:31 describe-char and unicode data James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-05-10 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-10 16:23 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-05-10 16:23 ` Florian Weimer
2003-05-10 16:39 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-05-11 12:56 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-11 13:04 ` Florian Weimer
2003-05-10 18:52 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-11 13:05 ` Florian Weimer
2003-05-11 14:34 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-12 7:38 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-12 11:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-13 6:07 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-15 4:54 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-11 12:55 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-11 17:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2003-05-12 11:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-14 13:49 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-21 21:52 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-05-22 15:29 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-05-22 19:25 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-05-23 12:04 ` Richard Stallman
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