[XeTeX] not enough \XeTeXcharclass registers

[Mike "Pomax" Kamermans]

It's certainly possible to limit the number of default transitions, but 
with the ever increasing expanse that is Unicode, while it might seem 
unrealistic, really it's more a matter of time until someone actually 
needs more classes than are currently available

There is an obvious optimization as per Jonathan's suggestion to 
collapse multiple blocks to scripts instead, to bring down the number of 
required classes used in the package, but also remember that 
ucharclasses is just one package; if someone uses additional packages 
that rely on allocating classes to achieve some goal, then having only 
255 (sans xetex-reserved classes) may become not enough much faster than 
if it's only used for the transition triggers that ucharclasses offers.

- Pomax

On 12/14/2015 11:02 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> <<Don't you only need to allocate a class to a block for which a
> transition is specified, so 256 should only be a problem if you need
> to specify that many transitions?>>
> I guess this would need a complete rewrite of the ucharclasses package
> (so Michiel should answer :-), but yes, such an approach could solve
> the issue.
>
> Regardless of that, I think that \XeTeXcharclass should allow more
> than 256 registers.
>
>
>      Werner