Suggestion: Unicode version codepoint was added

[wezm]

Suggestion: Unicode version codepoint was added

[wezm]

I made a start on this yesterday. I'm 50–75% done. Fortunately I think what you described above matches what I did/planned to do 😃

[antifuchs]

This is a marvelous idea! Thanks for submitting it! :D

I'm not sure I can take a look at this in the next few weeks, but would love to have this feature. If you want to take a stab at it, I can probably give you enough guidance to get you started, though (:

[wezm]

I might be able to take a look on the weekend. Did you have and preferences/thoughts regarding whether the version information was output by default?

[antifuchs]

I think showing the version unconditionally would be just fine - chars is somewhat aggressively non-configurable and maximally informative for human users, so just adding it would work well (:

To add this feature, I think it's a two/three step process:

1. you'd add a task to fetch data file to the chars_data subcrate in the chars workspace here,
2. update write_name_data in the unicode portion to emit another table giving unicode versions & the ranges added in them (ideally make it a memory-optimized data structure; I don't extremely mind searching through n*13ish unicode versions for each character, but would be worried if we added a table mapping each character to a version number... maybe there's something one could do with tries though?)
3. Update the Codepoint Display impl's branch for Unicode here-ish to show the version number.

...and that's about it, I think! The main difficulty will probably be making a parser for that data file (the ones I made I got by with making a regex-based one, but feel free to use any other reasonable method, tbqh) and finding a decently space-efficient repr for the version table. Best of luck!

[antifuchs]

That's fantastic to hear - excited to see what you came up with (: