Re: [Sbcl-devel] Unicode character names

[Harald Hanche-O. <ha...@ma...>]

+ Yaroslav Kavenchuk <kav...@je...>:

| Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
| > Character-to-name and name-to-character mappings are both O(ln
| > size-of-character-space), which seems reasonable enough for me.
| 
| mappings from what and to what?

Somewhere at the Unicode web site there is a file UnicodeData.txt
which contains lines like this one:

2232;CLOCKWISE CONTOUR INTEGRAL;Sm;0;ON;;;;;Y;;;;;

So the character-to-name mapping ought to map #.(code-char #x2232) (∲)
to the string "CLOCKWISE CONTOUR INTEGRAL", and the inverse mapping
does, well, the inverse.

As to whether 600 K is bloat, I wonder how hard it would be to put the
conversion tables in a fasl that is automagically loaded on demand?
(My guess is it shouldn't be hard at all.)

- Harald