On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:59:32PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: > On 12 June 2010 Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > A loosely related issue that I was considering, is to have a > > Unicode database in luatex-base, some thing like char-def.lua in > > ConTeXt, but auto-generated for maintainability (Unicode is ever > > growing). It would be very useful for people writing code that > > deals with character proprieties (my lua bidi for example). If we > > ever had such database, we can generate the required TeX file from > > it easily, I can also imagine an option for doing it on the fly if > > one really wants. > > I agree with you that it makes sense to use the Unicode databases. > But I'm not convinced that it should be done on-the-fly.
I don't say it should, I say it can, as an option, so when there is a new release of Unicode or correction to our database, one can update the luabase package and benefit from the updates immediately without messing with the format. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
