This is the README for the unicode-translation project.

The purpose of this project is to translate Unicode character names and
other data using the usual gettext infrastructure.

See the thread starting with
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2003-December/msg00183.html
for the origins of the project. I'll quote the thread rather than write up
a rationale myself.

  "My preference would be to create a separate unicode-data gettext domain,
  which would not be tightly bound to Gucharmap, where you would put all the
  character names and possibly all the other data extracted from Unicode
  database." -- Danilo Segan
  
  "I agree with Danilo. In addition, if you create a seperate Unicode
  database thing that is not deeply tied to gucharmap, please try to place
  that on freedesktop.org, so that other applications can benefit from it.
  
  "And as Danilo said, try to place the pot file from that effort in the
  Translation Project. Then other translators of freedesktop.org software
  can translate it too." -- Christian Rose

  "Clearly, the project should venture to translate not only the character
  names but also strings from Blocks.txt, NamesList.txt, Scripts.txt and
  possibly others. [1] These are all greatly outnumbered by the character
  names.  Fortunately the character names are guaranteed to be stable; new
  ones are added, but old ones never change. Most of the other strings can
  change though." -- Noah Levitt

I'm somewhat tentatively licensing this project under the LGPL. 

Noah Levitt
Sat Dec 20 00:22:36 EST 2003
