Subject: Re: bin/12017: how to enable multibyte locale (and problem around it)
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/23/2001 16:17:18
>> charset table will be /usr/share/locale/*/LC_CTYPE, and
>> it will be loaded on demand. i don't see *code* overbloat in
>> this case (yes, data can be huge, but we are talking about code)
>No. What I wrote is "encoding module" (like big5/euc/ecutw/iso2022/
>mskanji/utf8) not isXXXXX() settings, and "charmap" file is nothing
>related to isXXXXX() functions, either.
i think we are talking about the same thing.
even if we use charmap, encoding module won't be that big i guess.
data (the conversion table generated from charmap) will be big though.
also, since charmap is a static table (not conversion formula)
there's no reason for it to require different encoding modules
per different charmaps.
itojun