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Re: Should glibc provide a builtin C.UTF-8 locale?


On 02/11/2015 09:39 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
>> Also a pet idea of mine is to have compressed locales - that could significantly reduce
>> the disk footprint of a more complete locale database. Also good for message catalogues.
> 
> This sounds like a bad tradeoff unless you can use the compressed data
> efficiently in-place. Disk space is cheap; requiring a decompressed
> copy in memory per-process rather than using a shared mapping is
> expensive.

Agreed.

c.


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