From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: describe-char and unicode data Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 02:24:07 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znltpfbc.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052674017 12263 80.91.224.249 (11 May 2003 17:26:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 17:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 11 19:26:56 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 19EubA-0003Bf-00 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 19:26:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19EuhA-00042C-00 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 19:33:09 +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 19EuaP-0002rU-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 11 May 2003 13:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EuZd-0001z9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2003 13:25:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EuZN-00016U-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2003 13:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.98.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EuZG-0000e5-00; Sun, 11 May 2003 13:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19EuYR-0001C1-00; Mon, 12 May 2003 02:24:07 +0900 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 11 May 2003 08:55:33 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) XEmacs/21.5 (carrot, linux) 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:13804 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13804 >>>>> "rms" == Richard Stallman 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. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.