Comment by ambicapter
16 hours ago
Unicode is everywhere though. You'd think there'd be much greater availability of those tables and data and that people wouldn't need to bundle it in their executables.
16 hours ago
Unicode is everywhere though. You'd think there'd be much greater availability of those tables and data and that people wouldn't need to bundle it in their executables.
Unfortunately operating systems don't make the raw unicode data available (they only offer APIs to query it in various ways). Until they do we all have to ship it seperately.
For some OSes like Windows, some relevant APIs can be indeed used to reconstruct those tables. I found that this is in fact viable for character encoding tables, only requiring a small table for fixes in most cases.
Debian has a unicode-data package, so you can just depend on it.