tree a6dbd7f77007b92a0b8b8e6686474bdeb006ab3d
parent ce2a30998b5b9aa0c62aa1cb212b36c75ee805ac
author Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> 1389800039 +0800
committer Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> 1389800288 +0800

Use Python's unicodedata.name() in fontTools.unicode

This removes our internal copy of Unicode names database!

Adds new API fontTools.unicode.setUnicodeData() that can be
called with a filename or file object corresponding to a
UnicodeData.txt file, which will consequently used for Unicode
character name mapping.  This is useful for using newer Unicode
database than the one that comes with the builtin Python module.

This also changes behavior such that control characters, Hangul
syllables, Han chars, etc, get no name with custom
UnicodeData.txt.  We may revisit this though.

Filed https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/issues/82 to add
option to ttx to pass custom UnicodeData.txt.

Fixes https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/issues/81