Hi Andrew, Andrew Fresh wrote on Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 08:22:16PM -0700: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 01:57:01AM +0200, Lauri Tirkkonen wrote:
>> Hi, the recent perl-5.28.1 and related unicore update brought the >> unicode data from version 8.0.0 to version 10.0.0. That fixes some >> character classifications (eg. emoji characters gained East_Asian_Width >> value 'Wide', which causes them to correctly get a wcwidth() of 2). But >> the ctype source data needs to be regenerated with this new perl/unicore >> to gain the benefits. >> >> So I've done just that: >> cd /usr/src/share/locale/ctype && ./gen_ctype_utf8.pl > en_US.UTF-8.src >> and the resulting diff is below. You could obviously run this yourself - > I meant to do that and make sure it was OK with schwarze@, I'm certainly OK with the basic idea of doing an update in this way. > so it is OK afresh1@, I guess once we are confident that not just the idea, but the specific diff is OK, you'll not only get to OK it, but even to commit it, Andrew. :) > although I didn't compare your output to mine. Should be trivial to do, or would that cause any inconvenience? It seems like a free additional test to me, as another easy test to make sure that nothing unexpected went awry. >> I'm only including the diff because it took quite a long time to run the >> script (177m08.01s real). > There are a lot of unicode symbols. Someday if I get super bored I'll > write something to do it in parallel :-) I clearly prefer simplicity over performance in this respect. I'll now have a look at the diff itself to see whether anything looks suspicious. Yours, Ingo
