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On 07/30/10 21:17, karl williamson wrote:
> The problem is that we have to look-up in both directions. viacode()
> takes a code point number and returns the official Unicode name. We
> want that official name to have the correct spaces and hyphens. We
> don't want it to be "ZEROWIDTHSPACE", for example. The only
> reasonable way to do this is to have the official name stored
> correctly. That means we have to have a table with all the correct
> official names. There's no getting around that.
>
How about storing the loose matching name against the code point instead
of the official name. This gives loose matching via \N{}. Then making
viacode() a two step process. First find the lose name and then use that
as a key to a lookup for the official name.
As has been said elsewhere viacode() is not used that oftern and the
code to official name could be cashed once used. As a number of the
names can be programatically reconstituted from the loose name, ie CJK
COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F801, calls for these could be intercepted and
memory saved by not having them in the table.
John
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