Re: [PATCH] unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 16

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2024, 21:54 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy13qhrot.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <7449ce5b-5308-ce6e-394d-43dec511ef16@gmx.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hi Beat,
>
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024, Beat Bolli wrote:
>
>> Unicode 16 has been announced on 2024-09-10 [0], so update the character
>> width tables to the new version.
>>
>> [0] https://blog.unicode.org/2024/09/announcing-unicode-standard-version-160.html
>
> I can confirm that the output is identical to the result of running
> ./contrib/update-unicode/update_unicode.sh.

Thanks for double checking. I did the same when I queued the patch and it indeed looked good.

> Maybe we should add an automated, scheduled workflow for these updates?

We could, but the consortium aims to issue major updates once a year in September, with minor versions and updates "will be avoided", so we may need to devise automation that makes better use of resources than to scrape http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/ daily.

44dc651132 2024-09-12T22:40:47+02:00 unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 16 872976c37e 2023-09-25T21:07:04+02:00 unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 15.1 b10cbdac4c 2023-03-30T21:15:17+02:00 unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 15 187fc8b8b6 2021-09-17T12:19:20-07:00 unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 14 65588b0b2e 2020-03-17T16:36:05+01:00 unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 13.0 5817f9caa3 2019-05-29T22:50:45+02:00 unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 12.1 584b62c37b 2019-03-21T22:06:17+01:00 unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 12 570951eea2 2018-07-09T21:44:52+02:00 unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 11 e233bef43e 2018-04-10T14:26:17-07:00 unicode_width.h: rename to use dash in file name