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diff --git a/contrib/update-unicode/README b/contrib/update-unicode/README deleted file mode 100644 index 151a197041..0000000000 --- a/contrib/update-unicode/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -TL;DR: Run update_unicode.sh after the publication of a new Unicode -standard and commit the resulting unicode-widths.h file. - -The long version -================ - -The Git source code ships the file unicode-widths.h which contains -tables of zero and double width Unicode code points, respectively. -These tables are generated using update_unicode.sh in this directory. -update_unicode.sh itself uses a third-party tool, uniset, to query two -Unicode data files for the interesting code points. - -On first run, update_unicode.sh clones uniset from Github and builds it. -This requires a current-ish version of autoconf (2.69 works per December -2016). - -On each run, update_unicode.sh checks whether more recent Unicode data -files are available from the Unicode consortium, and rebuilds the header -unicode-widths.h with the new data. The new header can then be -committed. |