Re: [PATCH] Completed unaccent dictionary with many missing characters

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 10:37:57AM +0200, Przemysław Sztoch wrote:
> But ligature check is performed on combining_ids (result of translation),
> not on base codepoint.
> Without it, you will get assertions in get_plain_letters.

Hmm.  I am wondering if we could make the whole logic a bit more
intuitive here.  The loop that builds the set of mappings gets now
much more complicated with the addition of the categories beginning by
N for the numbers, and that's mostly the same set of checks as the
ones applied for T.

> However, the current Latin-ASCII.xml suggests a conversion to x.
> I found an open discussion on the internet about this and the suggestion
> that the Latin-ASCII.xml file should be corrected for this letter.
> But I wouldn't expect that Unicode makes the revised Latin-ASCII.xml quickly
> into the official repo.

Yeah, Latin-ASCII.xml is getting it wrong here, then.  unaccent
fetches the thing from this URL currently:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/cldr/release-41/common/transforms/Latin-ASCII.xml

Could it be better to handle that as an exception in
generate_unaccent_rules.py, documenting why we are doing it this way
then?  My concern is somebody re-running the script without noticing
this exception, and the set of rules would be blindly, and
incorrectly, updated.
--
Michael