Comment by nicoburns
15 hours ago
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.
15 hours ago
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.