Re: Update List of Character Entity Names

On 2025-01-13 02:07, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 09:56:12PM -0700, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2025-01-09 14:34, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 11:15:23AM -0700, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> Many sites are now using Character Entity Names defined under
>>>>
>>>> 	https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/
>>>
>>> https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/#source
>>
>> 	https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/bycodes.html
>>
>> 	https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/byalpha.html
>>
>> the former is about 184KB, and the latter about 386KB, with a lot of HTML overhead.
>> As they have to index character name strings not just codepoint combos, they
>> probably need about an order of magnitude more space than compose data:
>> ~50KB source with lots of overhead actually ~8KB.
> 
> I see.  I'm expecting other issues with zero-width-whatever, but will
> (after current work on cdk & dialog) see about making a script to extract
> the data from bycodes.html

Hopefully those are no more onerous than zero width  ?

Thanks for considering it, and your work on these libraries and utilities.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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