Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I don't think there is a reason other than the fact that admin/ was the
>     best place to put UnicodeData.txt (which is a 1.4Mb file that is not
>     used directly by Emacs itself, and must not be changed apart from
>     updating to new Unicode releases, so it doesn't make sense to put in
>     etc/).
>
> Aside, but it's important: why do you say "must not be changed"?  It
> is free -- it could be changed.  We probably will never have a good
> reason to change it, so we will probably never change it, but that is
> not the same as "must not".

I used "must not" in the sense of "should not, unless you are insane".