overcoming UnicodeTable.txt download

[mcharytoniuk]

I am not the package maintainer but I'll leave this info here because it may be useful:

The other way to overcome UnicodeTable.txt download problems under corporate networks, weird proxies, etc is to download everyting manually and distribute "unicode" under "bundledDependencies" in package.json:

{
  "bundledDependencies": [
    "unicode"
  ]
}

Then just place unicode package with downloaded UnicodeTable.txt and generated category dir under your project's node_modules and keep it versioned (actually package.json file and category directory is enough for unicode to work).

I hope it helps someone. I think it can be also mentioned in a README.

[ltanme]

try to read file /usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt …
/usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt not found.
try to read file /usr/share/unicode-data/UnicodeData.txt …
/usr/share/unicode-data/UnicodeData.txt not found.
try to read file UnicodeData.txt …
UnicodeData.txt not found.
try to download …
GET unicode.org:80/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
request timed out.

mac pro os x node install.js not work

[sjanecki]

same thing again
could you do something with this?

curl -vvv -s -i 'http://unicode.org:80/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt'
* About to connect() to unicode.org port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 216.97.88.9... Connection timed out
* couldn't connect to host
* Closing connection #0

[leinonen]

Why not bundle the file with the lib? This is really annoying..

[mrj04]

update the install.js by replacing this code :

unicodedatafile = {
host: "unicode.org",

By this code :
unicodedatafile = {
host: "http://unicode.org",

[xusai2014]

Finally, how to solve the questions on MacOs?

[guyellis]

I've started hitting this timeout issue a lot on a Travis build:

> [email protected] postinstall /home/travis/build/guyellis/plant/node_modules/unicode
> node install.js
try to read file /usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt …
/usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt not found.
try to read file /usr/share/unicode-data/UnicodeData.txt …
/usr/share/unicode-data/UnicodeData.txt not found.
try to read file UnicodeData.txt …
UnicodeData.txt not found.
try to download …
GET unicode.org:80/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
request timed out.

Any ideas why Travis would be timing out?

[mwj8410]

I doubt that it is limited to your Travis environment. When it happens, try getting the file in your web browser. The file is simply not reliably available at that location.

You have two option:

1. remove the dependency (considering how stale this lib is, I recommend that)
2. Implement some hack to bypass the flaw

[srl295]

^ cause above is your host being blacklisted for excess downloads, see #16