Charmap does not know about new Unicode 6.0 characters

detail page of character map

I looked at adding the U+20B9 entry to gucharmap, but gucharmap contains its own internal copy of the Unicode names and strings, and this noted that it was auto-generated from another source.

Hopefully the upstream data-source will have been updated and the program can be be-compiled with this data-source.

This isn't an issue with the Ubuntu font, it's an issue with the version
of Unicode being supported by the character map. U+20B9 is new in
Unicode 6.0, which is still in draft. It was requested that the font be
new-Rupee-ready, which it is, though apps will still need to catch up to
know what the character is.

Dave

The patch that fixes this upstream is the one that introduces the Unicode 6.0 support, it is a very large patch produced by a Perl-script from an external dataset:

$ git diff --stat 7d0411..be4964
 gucharmap/gucharmap-unicode-info.c | 3 +-
 gucharmap/gucharmap-unicode-info.h | 3 +-
 gucharmap/gucharmap-window.c | 4 +-
 gucharmap/unicode-blocks.h | 396 +-
 gucharmap/unicode-categories.h | 172 +-
 gucharmap/unicode-names.h |47384 +++++++++++++++++--------------
 gucharmap/unicode-nameslist.h |27654 ++++++++++---------
 gucharmap/unicode-scripts.h | 3085 ++-
 gucharmap/unicode-unihan.h |54578 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 gucharmap/unicode-versions.h | 110 +-
 10 files changed, 69598 insertions(+), 63791 deletions(-)

...However, these are all textual dataset changes and the only "code" alterations are updates of the copyright strings and Unicode version numbers:

  git diff -U0 7d0411..be4964 gucharmap/gucharmap-*
  - || (wc >= 0x2a700 && wc <= 0x2b734))
  + || (wc >= 0x2a700 && wc <= 0x2b734)
  + || (wc >= 0x2b740 && wc <= 0x2b81d))
  - GUCHARMAP_UNICODE_VERSION_LATEST = GUCHARMAP_UNICODE_VERSION_5_2 /* private, will move forward with each revision */
  + GUCHARMAP_UNICODE_VERSION_6_0,
  + GUCHARMAP_UNICODE_VERSION_LATEST = GUCHARMAP_UNICODE_VERSION_6_0 /* private, will move forward with each revision */
  - "comments", _("Based on the Unicode Character Database 5.2"),
  + "comments", _("Based on the Unicode Character Database 6.0.0"),
  - "Copyright © 1991–2009 Unicode, Inc.\n"
  + "Copyright © 1991–2010 Unicode, Inc.\n"

in an ideal world all of this would be in an external package, and it would be obviously a data-only update.

The Indian government plans to fully adopt it everywhere within the next 6months .
and we already have keyboards with the symbol available in India : http://www.blogsolute.com/tvs-gold-bharat-indian-rupee-symbol-keyboard/10131/

Since we do boast as the first OS to ship ₹ natively[ in Ubuntu 10.10 ], it would be ideal if we can patch gucharmap to make it more complete. :-)

Fixed ages ago...