Re: describe-char and unicode data

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
>
>> The related Unihan.txt has up to 78 possible entries for each of
>> 71098 characters.
>
> Unihan.txt is strongly non-free, so it can't be distributed anyway.
> Data derived from it falls under the same restrictive license, I fear.

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