Re: idn.el and confusables.txt

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 13 May 2011 16:42:57 -0300 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> IMHO idn.el and confusables.txt should go into the Emacs trunk so they
>> can generate first-class character properties for `C-u x ='.  Stefan,
>> Chong, what do you think?

SM> I don't know enough about the way we handle Unicode tables to know.
SM> It does sound like confusables.txt could be turned into
SM> a lisp/international/uni-confusables.el, but I don't know whether there
SM> is a large benefit from having it part of Emacs as opposed to having it
SM> in GNU ELPA.  As for idn.el, I haven't seen the file, and don't know
SM> what uses it, so I can't judge.

Looking at lisp/international/uni-uppercase.el for example, it seems
possible to generate something similar from confusables.txt that would
live in the GNU ELPA and can be loaded by other packages.  I don't see
anything that requires the code to live in Emacs.  Ditto for idn.el.
But it would be nice if we could reuse the admin/unidata infrastructure
to generate uni-confusables.el and uni-idn.el.  Could that be connected
with the GNU ELPA somehow?

If Juanma Barranquero or Kenichi Handa (two recent committers to that
area) could comment, that would be great.

Ted