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2014-06-24 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* notes/unicode: Some notes about what to do when a new Unicode
version is imported.
2014-06-24 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* unidata/BidiMirroring.txt: Update to 7.0.0 (only comment changes).

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Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
Importing a new Unicode Standard version into Emacs
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Emacs uses the following files from the Unicode Character Database
(a.k.a. "UCD):
. UnicodeData.txt
. BidiMirroring.txt
. IVD_Sequences.txt
First, these files need to be copied into admin/unidata/, and then
Emacs should be rebuilt for them to take effect. Rebuilding Emacs
updates several derived files elsewhere in the Emacs source tree,
mainly in lisp/international/.
When Emacs is rebuilt for the first time after importing the new
files, pay attention to any warning or error messages. In particular,
admin/unidata/unidata-gen.el will complain if UnicodeData.txt defines
new bidirectional attributes of characters, because unidata-gen.el,
bidi.c and dispextern.h need to be updated in that case; failure to do
so will cause aborts in redisplay.
Next, review the changes in UnicodeData.txt vs the previous version
used by Emacs. Any changes, be it introduction of new scripts or
addition of codepoints to existing scripts, need corresponding changes
in the data used for filling char-script-table, see characters.el
around line 1300. Other databases and settings in characters.el, such
as the data for char-width-table, might also need changes.
Any new scripts added by UnicodeData.txt will also need updates to
script-representative-chars defined in fontset.el. Other databases in
fontset.el might also need to be updated as needed.
Problems, fixmes and other unicode-related issues
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