Bug#603405: gucharmap: missing source code needed to update unicode tables

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 13 novembre 2010 à 14:06 -0500, Dwayne C. Litzenberger a
écrit : 
> I was trying to add support for the new Indian Rupee Symbol (U+20B9), but 
> the gen-guch-unicode-tables.pl script and the Unicode Character Database, 
> which form part of gucharmap's source code, were missing from the Debian 
> source package.

The perl script looks like it was omitted from the tarballs. For the
Unicode tables, this is of course intentional, since that would make 
8 MB more data just for them.

> My suggestion for fixing this bug is as follows:
> 
>      1. Include gen-guch-unicode-tables.pl in the gucharmap package;
>      2. Add unicode-data to the build-dependencies of gucharmap; and
>      3. Run gen-guch-unicode-tables.pl as part of the build process, using 
>         the UCD from the unicode-data package.

Patches are welcome; as for myself, I have more interesting things to
do. I already tried to do this kind of things to “auto-generated” files
in GTK+, and it turned out to be a disaster to implement, because you
need a specific version of the source files if you want to be sure there
is no side effect.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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