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[PATCH] Enable Emoji support in IBus

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From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 39086 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#39086] [PATCH 3/5] gnu: Add unicode-cldr-common.
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 23:53:26 +0100

Am Donnerstag, den 16.01.2020, 22:08 +0100 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
> Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at> writes:
> 
> > * gnu/packages/ibus (unicode-cldr-commmon): New package.
> 
> This should be:
> 
>     * gnu/packages/ibus.scm (unicode-cldr-commmon): New variable.
> 
> You know, I wonder if these things really belong to ibus.scm.  I
> remember a TODO somewhere in the code that bemoaned the lack of
> versioned Unicode data files.  Perhaps we should just add a new
> module
> (gnu packages unicode) — what do you think?
I don't mind either way, but these packages don't fix the TODO.  They
add yet unseen features.

> > +(define-public unicode-cldr-common
> > +  (package
> > +    (name "unicode-cldr-common")
> > +    (version "36")
> > +    (source
> > +     (origin (method url-fetch/zipbomb)
> > +             (uri "
> > https://unicode.org/Public/cldr/36/cldr-common-36.0.zip")
> > +             (sha256
> > +              (base32
> > +
> > "0hxsc3j5zb32hmiaj0r3ajchmklx6zng6zlh1ca6s9plq5b9w9q7"))))
> 
> The version should be “36.0”.  The source URI should reference the
> version field twice.
The thing is, the Unicode people are really messy with their
versioning, so I feel safer if I at least just use version once. 
Basically, they have 36/36.0, but 36.1/36.1, which makes no sense
whatsoever.

> 
> > +    (description
> > +     "The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) is a large
> > repository of
> > +locale data, including among others
> > +- patterns for formatting and parsing,
> > +- name translations,
> > +- and various informations on languages, scripts and country-
> > specific
> > +conventions.")
> > +    (license unicode)))
> 
> Please use @enumerate or @itemize texinfo syntax here.
Will do.

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