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Re: [PATCH @11446] UnicodeCD::charinfo

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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
July 29, 2001 14:48
Subject:
Re: [PATCH @11446] UnicodeCD::charinfo
Message ID:
20010729164817.M23349@chaos.wustl.edu
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:46:04AM -0700, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:27:20AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > > Since Unicode.txt is not sorted in dictionary order,
> > >  e.g
> > >   FFFD;REPLACEMENT CHARACTER;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
> > >   10300;OLD ITALIC LETTER A;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
> > > 
> > > then, a sorted file is necessary, isn't it?
> > 
> > I don't know enough to answer this question. Others will, but many people
> > are at the perl conference at the moment so they may not be in a position
> > to read e-mail or reply this week.
> 
> I don't *think* it's necessary, given that we're going to be putting it
> all in a hash anyway.

No, we are not putting it all in a hash, not in the sense of 
cacheing/accumulating the charinfo() results.

I now extended Search::Dict so that it can do a little bit more with
its input stream, and that made having a sorted file unnecessary.

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