$750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote:
> Following my "Is it time for a Unicode update of std.uni?" post 
> in D group, I would like to try out to sponsor this effort for 
> "Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to 
> latest Unicode standard)" [1]
>
> For me, this, too, is an experiment to find out if it's 
> possible to move specific issues/topics forward. And maybe even 
> find people that are open to contact work too. For me, all 
> these things are pretty related.
>
> So, not knowing how much work it is, nor knowing what a good 
> amount would be, I took the other route and asked me, what is 
> it worth for me to get it done? Note: Getting #16416 done is 
> not critical for me; most likely, I could even live with the 
> current state of std.uni. On the other hand, std.uni is a very 
> fundamental building block, and having it up to date and maybe 
> even extended should be much value to D.
>
> So, I'm offering $750 to get it done.


I'm guess I'm not eligible for the bounty ;)

>
> Besides getting the work done, there is one constraint: The 
> work needs to get into Phobos. It doesn't make sense to have it 
> sit around, because it's not being merged. I don't have any 
> clue who is in charge, who decides this. Or if there need to be 
> some conditions full-filled so that the result gets merged.

Anyhow if anyone wants easy money - shoot me an email, or reply 
in this thread.

Spoiler is - the whole thing is code generated and there is only 
one table that I forgot about (i.e. I have no idea what is the 
source table for it in Unicode standard).

> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16416

P.S. I'm kind of back, but very busy and my health is mostly 
great despite the COVID outrage out there.

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Dmitry Olshansky