Re: New subscriber: redesign of Unicode character tables (GLib)



>> Did you drop the mailing list from CC intentionally?

Gmail did it... corrected...

>> Sure, I'm willing to help you learn.  It's a project I've wanted to do
>> myself, but had not got the time for.  I'll start writing my ideas down
>> and we'll go from there.

OK...
I'm know analyzing the Standard...

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
Hey,

Did you drop the mailing list from CC intentionally?

Sure, I'm willing to help you learn.  It's a project I've wanted to do
myself, but had not got the time for.  I'll start writing my ideas down
and we'll go from there.

Cheers,

behdad

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 23:22 +0100, adrian.dmc wrote:
> wow, I has definitely not expecting that...
>
> I'll accept the project but, that's a lot of pressure for someone with
> no experience in this kind of projects. But however...
>
> What I'll try to do is: first will try to document all the information
> that I can, then according to that information I'll make a decision.
> The process of gathering all the necessary information should take one
> to two months (I hope).
>
> Again: "I'll appreciate some guidelines and suggestion ("Give up!!"
> included)."
>
>
> Thank you for the reply...
>
> Keep up the good work...
> Best regards...
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>
> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 22:38 +0100, adrian.dmc wrote:
>         > Hi, I'm new here...
>
>
>         Welcome.  I'm the resident Unicode hacker around here for now.
>
>         > My objective, for now, its to rework the Unicode support of
>         GLib by
>         > redesigning its character tables, specially its size.
>         > I'll appreciate some guidelines and suggestion ("Give up!!"
>         included).
>
>
>         Awesome!  I've got a year-long (being VERY optimistic) project
>         for you!
>         The idea is to write a fd.o library to expose ALL of UCD, and
>         nothing
>         else.  And by ALL I mean all the ~80 properties enumerated
>         here:
>
>          http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html#Properties
>
>         I have thought about it a lot.  Let me know if you are
>         interested and
>         I'll write a design document.
>
>         > I'm currently reading/analyzing the Unicode Standard 5.1 and
>         the GLib
>         > support for Unicode to later propose the redesign.
>         >
>         > Keep up the good work...
>         > Best regards...
>
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         --
>         behdad
>         http://behdad.org/
>
>         "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a
>         little
>          Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
>                -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
>
>
>
--
behdad
http://behdad.org/

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
 Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
       -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759




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