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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: gencat bloat [Re: /usr/src/usr.bin/ee]
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> FYI: Inflating the FreeBSD system with extensive use of
> internationalisation thingies would be a very well reason for me and
> the people around me to throw out the FreeBSD installations. Small is
> beautiful. At the very least, make the stuff optional to install.

I don't think anyone was talking about a mandatory install.  If they
were, they're insane.  A single 14 point X font is in the neighborhood
of 1M without even considering Tamil, Devangari, Hebrew, Arabic, or
other ligatured languages that because of design flaws in the encoding
standards require a lot of work or non-fixed cell rendering technology.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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