From c8bae7493d2f2910b57f13ded012e86bdcfb0532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 16:47:53 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 1:2.39.2. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- contrib/update-unicode/README | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 contrib/update-unicode/README (limited to 'contrib/update-unicode/README') diff --git a/contrib/update-unicode/README b/contrib/update-unicode/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..151a197 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/update-unicode/README @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +TL;DR: Run update_unicode.sh after the publication of a new Unicode +standard and commit the resulting unicode-widths.h file. + +The long version +================ + +The Git source code ships the file unicode-widths.h which contains +tables of zero and double width Unicode code points, respectively. +These tables are generated using update_unicode.sh in this directory. +update_unicode.sh itself uses a third-party tool, uniset, to query two +Unicode data files for the interesting code points. + +On first run, update_unicode.sh clones uniset from Github and builds it. +This requires a current-ish version of autoconf (2.69 works per December +2016). + +On each run, update_unicode.sh checks whether more recent Unicode data +files are available from the Unicode consortium, and rebuilds the header +unicode-widths.h with the new data. The new header can then be +committed. -- cgit v1.2.3