Re: [PATCH] libcpp: Update cpp_wcwidth() to Unicode 14.0.0

[David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 17:49 -0400, Lewis Hyatt via Gcc-patches wrote:
> Hello-
> 
> The attached patch upgrades the cpp_wcwidth() function (needed for
> computing display columns in diagnostics output) from Unicode 13 to
> Unicode 14. I just mechanically followed the procedure in
> contrib/unicode/README with nothing unexpected coming up. I attached it
> compressed since it's a bit large, and not really human readable
> anyway. Please let me know if it's OK to commit. I did
> bootstrap/regtest
> all languages with no issues on x86-64 Linux. (Although I had to revert
> locally one unrelated commit that seems to break bootstrap for Ada on
> the
> master branch currently.)
> 
> BTW, is this something simple enough I should just commit it without
> bugging
> the list for approval?

The patch seems reasonable to me, but Joseph seems to be the expert on
i18n-related matters.

Joseph, do we have a policy on this?

Thanks
Dave

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Lewis
> 
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> 
> Subject: [PATCH] libcpp: Update cpp_wcwidth() to Unicode 14.0.0
> 
> The procedure detailed in contrib/unicode/README was followed with
> nothing
> notable coming up. The glibc scripts did not require any update, so the
> only change was retrieving new versions of the Unicode data files and
> rerunning gen_wcwidth.py.
> 
> contrib/ChangeLog:
> 
>         * unicode/EastAsianWidth.txt: Update to Unicode 14.0.0.
>         * unicode/PropList.txt: Likewise.
>         * unicode/README: Likewise.
>         * unicode/UnicodeData.txt: Likewise.
> 
> libcpp/ChangeLog:
> 
>         * generated_cpp_wcwidth.h: Generated from updated Unicode data
> files.