Unicode TR35 defines how locale subtag aliases should be emplaced when
converting a locale to canonical form. For most subtags, it is a simple
substitution. Language subtags depend on context; for example, the
language "sh" should become "sr-Latn", but if the original locale has a
script subtag already ("sh-Cyrl"), then only the language subtag of the
alias should be taken ("sr-Latn").
To facilitate this, we now make two passes when canonicalizing a locale.
In the first pass, we convert the LocaleID structure to canonical syntax
(where the conversions all happen in-place). In the second pass, we form
the canonical string based on the canonical syntax.
Originally, it was convenient to store the parsed Unicode locale data as
views into the original string being parsed. But to implement locale
aliases will require mutating the data that was parsed. To prepare for
that, store the parsed data as proper strings.
ECMA-402 requires validating user input against the EBNF grammar for
Unicode locales described in TR-35: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35
This commit adds validators for that grammar, as well as other helper to
e.g. canonicalize a locale string.
These script extensions have some peculiar behavior in the Unicode spec.
The UCD ScriptExtension file does not contain these scripts. Rather, it
is implied the code points which have these scripts as an extension are
the code points that both:
1. Have Common or Inherited as their primary script value
2. Do not have any other script value in their script extension lists
Because these are not explictly listed in the UCD, we must manually form
these script extensions.
Notice that unlike the note in populate_general_category_unions(),
script extension do indeed have code point ranges which overlap. Thus,
this commit adds code to handle that, and hooks it into the GC unions.
Previously, each code point's General Category was part of the generated
UnicodeData structure. This ultimately presented two problems, one
functional and one performance related:
* Some General Categories are applied to unassigned code points, for
example the Unassigned (Cn) category. Unassigned code points are
strictly excluded from UnicodeData.txt, so by relying on that file,
the generator is unable to handle these categories.
* Lookups for General Categories are slower when searching through the
large UnicodeData hash map. Even though lookups are O(1), the hash
function turned out to be slower than binary searching through a
category-specific table.
So, now a table is generated for each General Category. When querying a
code point for a category, a binary search is done on each code point
range in that category's table to check if code point has that category.
Further, General Categories are now parsed from the UCD file
DerivedGeneralCategory.txt. This file is a normal "prop list" file and
contains the categories for unassigned code points.
Apparently, some code points fit both categories, for example U+0345
(COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI). Handle this fact when determining if
a code point is a final code point in a string.
This implements unconditional special case folding, and conditional
folding for non-locale cases. Worth noting that the only conditional,
non-locale special case is for converting an uppercase sigma to
lowercase.
The Unicode standard publishes the Unicode Character Database (UCD) with
information about every code point, such as each code point's upper case
mapping. LibUnicode exists to download and parse UCD files at build time
and to provide accessors to that data.
As a start, LibUnicode includes upper- and lower-case code point
converters.
