Re: Using localedef to define custom charmaps

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 06/11/2018 09:36 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > > I imagine some simple character maps could be automatically driven
> > > by the existing data.
> > We auto-generate gconv modules from charmaps for most (if not all)
> > 8-bit character sets.  This is a bit unfortunate because the code is
> > identical, and the overhead of loading the data via dlopen is quite
> > large (mostly in terms of private RSS consumption).

> That's an implementation detail that can be changed?

Yes, it's one of the few things that actually can be changed (i.e., 
which charsets are implemented as external modules loaded via dlopen, 
and which ones are internal and implemented by other means).

Thanks,
Florian