git: UTF-8: Multiple improvements (and detection of possible issue)
John Marino
marino at crater.dragonflybsd.org
Tue Sep 1 02:21:11 PDT 2015
commit 7294feb84bbe3070ca901983bd143802d793d494
Author: John Marino <draco at marino.st>
Date: Tue Sep 1 11:11:41 2015 +0200
UTF-8: Multiple improvements (and detection of possible issue)
This commit started out intending to fix "digit" definition on unicode,
which it mostly does, but a lot more happened in the end, namely:
* digits apparently are not part of CLDR definition. I added a section
in the manual portion of UTF-8 source file that defines digit classes
for generated sections.
* Add numbers classification for entire UTF-8. Currently DragonFly and
all BSDs do not support "number" type. However, localedef understands
it (its supported on Illumos), but currently the number flag value is
zero, so it's a no-op. A short term goal is to have DragonFly be the
first BSD with proper number ctype handling.
* Redefine "special" ctype once and for all. There is no definitive
agreement on what "special" characters are. According to wiki which
got it from unicode, it starts with 33 characters (0x20 - 0x2F, 0x3A -
0x40, 0x5B - 0x60, 0x7B - 0x7E). However, localedef objects to <space>
because it sets "graph" and "print" flags, and <space> can't be graph.
As a result, the <space> is not considered "special" here. Moreover,
the punctuation in Latin-1 supplement is "special". The division and
multiplication signs are ambiguous, so I set them to special (since
plus and minus signs are special). Finally, with the most doubt, the
punctuation of "general punctuation" block is also considered special
although I couldn't find convincing evidence either way. Given the
lack of definition, I don't think "special" classification is really
used, especially not in unicode.
* Fix NON-BREAK_SPACE classification (set as graph and space on previous
commit)
* the MICRO character was also warning due to being classified as both
lower (in Greek section) and punctuation, so remove the punct. class.
* When possible, don't define graph if digit is defined, and similarly
with graph and punct. Both digit and punct also set graph flag so
having both is redundant.
* add several new block definitions:
- Syloti Nagri
- Common Indic Number Forms
- Phags-pa
- Saurashra
- Kayah Li
- Rejang
- Javanese
- Cham
- Tal Viet
- Meetei Mayek & extension
* Detection of possible bug in localedef
The Tai Tham definition are producing the wrong code but there's
nothing wrong with the definitions. The 6 unused characters between
the two digit definitions should not be graphable, but as soon as
one "digit" is defined after the first digit range is defined, all
the characters between are marked as graphable and digits. There
are similar "fill-ins" but so far only with Thai Tam. It was
detected while outputting all "digit" types against a python program
that does the same and this error was reveal. It requires further
investigation about exactly what is causing it (and thus where the
bug is) but right now it's either a bad definition elsewhere that
affects Thai Tam or localedef has a bug somewhere (avl lookup?)
Summary of changes:
share/ctypedef/en_US.UTF-8.src | 324 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
tools/tools/locale/etc/common.UTF-8.src | 324 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
tools/tools/locale/etc/manual-input.UTF-8 | 324 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
3 files changed, 729 insertions(+), 243 deletions(-)
http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/7294feb84bbe3070ca901983bd143802d793d494
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