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Re: [PATCH][BZ 15593] Add transliteration data for "LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE" (ø)


On 10/17/2013 12:38 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> 
>> for example localedata/locales/translit_combining states "Generated from
>> UnicodeData.txt" so I was thinking if we regenerate the file again in
>> the future from newer upstream data then we might lost these kind of
>> local additions. Both Æ and Ø are in the same block so I'm also unclear
>> why the other was present and the other was missing in the first place.
>> Or am I perhaps missing something here?
> 
> Thanks - that sounds like a third bug for updating from Unicode, not 
> either 14094 or 14095 but covered by the same principles regarding first 
> working out how to reproduce the exact file (complete with local changes) 
> from a relevant old Unicode version, then adapting the generation process 
> to work with current Unicode data.  Please file a separate bug regarding 
> updating the translit_* files from Unicode and automating the process for 
> generating them from Unicode data to make future updates easier.
> 

Agreed. We may actually need more than just UnicodeData.txt o update that
file.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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