libX11/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre inconsistent formatting
Hi folks, Noticed that entries with COMBINING characters like J acute, E dot macron, and so on, have neither Unicode values nor names between the quoted character and the comment character, for example: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/blob/master/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre#L375 : "J́"# LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J plus COMBINING ACUTE : "J́"# LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J plus COMBINING ACUTE : "J́"# LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J plus COMBINING ACUTE : "J́"# LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J plus COMBINING ACUTE : "J́"# LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J plus COMBINING ACUTE could these at least have Jacute, and so on, inserted like: : "J́" Jacute # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J plus COMBINING ACUTE Also some entries with colon ":" between key sequence and quoted character after column 40 may not be preceded by any blank space character, for example: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/blob/master/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre#L4866 : "е̏" # CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE plus COMBINING DOUBLE GRAVE could these be realigned with (an) additional space(s), for example: : "е̏" iedoublegrave # CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE plus COMBINING DOUBLE GRAVE -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Re: libX11/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre inconsistent formatting
Sorry, but the person who was maintaining the nls files in libX11 has left the project and no one else has stepped up to fill the gap, so while I do still merge gitlab MR's for the files, I don't know of anyone who is responding to requests like this to do proactive work on the files. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
Re: libX11/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre inconsistent formatting
On 10/4/24 10:16, brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca wrote: On 2024-10-04 10:23, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Sorry, but the person who was maintaining the nls files in libX11 has left the project and no one else has stepped up to fill the gap, so while I do still merge gitlab MR's for the files, I don't know of anyone who is responding to requests like this to do proactive work on the files. Thanks Alan, I do submit git format-patch/send-email patches to newlib and Cygwin libraries, and maintain a bunch of Cygwin packages, but not X which is another volunteer, but have only done a few MRs on GitHub. So I could contribute changes, preferably via git format-patch/send-email, which you could apply using git am, or sign in using my Gitlab account which I use for other Gitlab based projects, and figure out merges and pushes or vice-versa again? Sorry, but there's no one keeping track of patches sent via email these days - they're basically lost forever at this point for X.Org now. Patches submitted via gitlab merge requests may take years to get merged, but at least gitlab still tracks them. There's just not enough people left maintaining the various X.Org project repos. As for submitting via gitlab, you need an account specifically on gitlab.freedesktop.org - though I believe you can set it up to use logins from github.com or gitlab.com - and then to request permissions as listed at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/-/wikis/home -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
