Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
|each and every program would have to load the whole translation
|table. This would be significant for e.g. eucjp, whose translation
|table Unicode --> eucjp is about 50KB.

Can't this be shared in some sort of shared memeory region or such?
Just like shared libraries.

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