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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 02:45:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 27 May 2024 14:03:16 +0100, bart wrote:

> On 27/05/2024 03:48, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> Apparently that is not so easy as you seem to think.
>> 
>> Yes, it is as easy as I think. I’ve done this sort of thing, using
>> suitable build scripts.
> 
> Show me.

Here <https://github.com/ldo/unicode_browser_android> is an old
example, from when I was trying to learn Android programming. It lets
you browse the Unicode code-point database, and do incremental
searches by partial matching on code-point names: e.g. you can type
“right arrow” and see candidate matches such as “U+219B RIGHTWARDS
ARROW WITH STROKE”, “U+219D RIGHTWARDS WAVE ARROW”, “U+21A0 RIGHTWARDS
TWO HEADED ARROW” etc.

In the “util” subdirectory, you will find a Python script called
“get_codes”. This processes a NamesList.txt file as downloaded from
Unicode.org, and encodes the database as a binary blob with a
specially-constructed header to allow quick loading and extraction of
code-point information, including names, categories, related entries
etc. This blob gets built as a “resource file” into the .apk file,
where the Java code can find it.