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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: where does emacs23 store the info that was UnicodeData.txt?
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hi Eli,

great info. thanks.

 Xah

On Aug 12, 10:32=A0pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:00:44 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > by looking at the output, it appears to me emacs 23 now has the full
> > info on unicode char without needing that file.
>
> > Is that true?
>
> Yes, that's true.
>
> > where does emacs get the data that was in UnicodeData.txt?
>
> It's in lisp/international/uni-*.el and lisp/international/charprop.el
> files. =A0Don't bother looking at the uni-*.el files: they are binary
> and compressed for size and fast access.
>
> See admin/unidata/unidata-gen.el (in the CVS) for how these files are
> generated from UnicodeData.txt.