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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Locale stuff: call for conclusion.
To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:38:16 -0700 (MST)
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> > 1) disable rune coding expect NONE in mklocale and tune setlocale
> > to not load rune coding.
> > It is very fast solution but unused runes code still bloats
> > stati binaries.
> > or 2) Ifdef all XPG4 code (by #ifdef XPG4 f.e.) additionly to 1).
> > or 3) Remove all XPG4-related sources and left only XPG3-related files
> > additionly to 1)
> 
> I dislike all three of these.

Why do you dislike the #ifdef XPG4?

It seems the sane soloution for code transitioning... the code can't
all be transitioned to runic support at once, and runic support is
less than useful at present in any case because of ISO 2022 and
shift-JIS not quite fitting XPG/4 in any case.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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