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Message #11918
Re: Shipping emoji translated data
Started with Swedish this morning
On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 4:31 PM Marco Trevisan <marco.trevisan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hey guys!
>
> First important things, first... :)
> Let's talk about Emoji metadata!
>
> So, gtk3 and gtk4 will support translated emoji metadata (from unicode
> CLDR [0]) so that one will be able to find in their language the right
> emoji when using `Ctrl+.` emoji chooser.
> Now, for this to happen localized gresource files generated from the
> emojibase [1] must be in /usr/share/gtk-{3,4}/emoji/ [2].
>
> As per this: how do we ship them?
> I think that ideally this would be included in each
> `language-pack-gnome-<LANG>` package, but how can we manage this?
>
> Generating the files is easy and having a process that automatizes it
> isn't complicated, but I would like how this can be handled.
>
> Cheers
>
> [0] http://cldr.unicode.org/
> [1] https://github.com/milesj/emojibase
> [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/master/gtk/emoji/README.md
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