Re: new modules for grapheme cluster breaking

[Ben Pfaff]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Wow! New modules in such quality, 99% perfect, this is rare.
>
> Please squeeze in the attached patch ("git commit --amend"),
> then you can push. 

Thank you.  Done.

(I also had to convert GraphemeBreakTest.txt from DOS to Unix
line-ends and remove trailing white space, because the Git hook
refused to accept it otherwise.  This is a little disappointing,
because it would have been nice to use the upstream test file
exactly.  But the tweaked version should be equivalent.)

> After this, you'll likely also want to write documentation about the new
> modules. Which means, it's time to start filing a copyright assignment for
> libunistring with the FSF. You find info how to request the copyright
> assignment form from the FSF at
> <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html>.

I started the process this morning.

> The next modules will have a higher-level API, I imagine. You're welcome
> to discuss the new API with me, before you implement it.

I am thinking of something like:
        size_t u<#>_grapheme_len (const uint<#>_t *s, size_t n);
which would return the number of units in the first grapheme
cluster in S.

I don't know what other functions would be useful.  My own
intended use, in GNU PSPP, is too odd to put into a
general-purpose API like that of libunistring.

Thanks,

Ben.
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