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Re: Using localedef to define custom charmaps
On 06/12/2018 10:03 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 06/11/2018 09:36 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>> I imagine some simple character maps could be automatically
>>>> driven by the existing data.
>>> We auto-generate gconv modules from charmaps for most (if not
>>> all) 8-bit character sets. This is a bit unfortunate because the
>>> code is identical, and the overhead of loading the data via
>>> dlopen is quite large (mostly in terms of private RSS
>>> consumption).
>
>> That's an implementation detail that can be changed?
>
> Yes, it's one of the few things that actually can be changed (i.e.,
> which charsets are implemented as external modules loaded via dlopen,
> and which ones are internal and implemented by other means).
The work never ends ;-)
c.