Re: Updating utf8's Unicode char sets

Hi! It may be option, not broke old Egg. But make the new one, like
Utf2025, or better name. Just thought

чт, 3 июл. 2025 г., 18:58 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe via Chicken-users <
[email protected]>:

> Hi Pietro, and thanks for your comments.
>
> On 2025-07-02 19:28 +0000, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> > How about having a refresh script that fetches them and generates the
> > modules? You could then commit the generated modules and solve the
> > compilation problem too.
>
> Fine by me. In fact, this is probably better, since CHICKEN doesn't
> provide an easy way to fetch the files; the current script just uses
> curl(1) or wget(1) via 'system'. This is certainly a likely point of
> failure.
>
> The only issue I can see with manually refreshing the module sources
> is that the egg's maintainer must remember to run the script once in a
> while. I suspect this explains the current state of unicode-char-sets:
> clearly the module was generated with a script, but the script hasn't
> been run since 2007 & is, indeed, no longer included with the egg.
>
> Switching to manual refresh is easy. If people like this idea, I'll
> make the necessary (minor) changes to the script & egg-file patch.
>
> --
> Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe  <[email protected]>
>
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