[lltx] adapting unicode-letters to luatex

[Khaled Hosny]

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

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer