On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <is...@sraoss.co.jp> wrote: > I think we should keep the original .txt files because:
Hm. I am wondering about licensing issues here to keep those files in the tree. I am no lawyer. > - It allows to track the changes in the original file if we decide to > change the map files. You have done that in the past for a couple of codepoints, didn't you? > - The site http://x0213.org/ may disappear in the future. If that > happens, we will lose track data how we create the map files. There are other problems then as there are 3 sites in use to fetch the data: - GB2312.TXT comes from greenstone.org. - Some from icu-project.org. - The rest is from unicode.org. > I believe we'd better to follow the same way how src/timezone keeps > the original timezone data. > > Above reasoning will not valid if we have a way to reconstruct the > original txt files from the map files, I doubt it's worth the > trouble to create such tools however. That's true as well. No need for reverse-engineering if there is no reason to. That would be possible though. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
