Re: [i18n] language choser impact
Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com> writes:
> Just to open a discussion what and how, I'd like to advise on what impact
> language chooser has (on my pentium):
>
> dbootstrap (w/o language chooser) 124540
> dbootstrap (w/ language chooser) 193180
Yow ! Why so much bigger?
> release_notes for all available
> languages in UTF-8 32K
> dbootstrap messages for all
> available languages in UTF-8 1044K
> libutf8_plug (to make UTF-8
> really working) 36661
> bterm program (which supports
> UTF-8 stuff) 30556
> a reduced (from unifont) font
> that displays all characters in
> release notes and messages 57059
>
> what gives + about 1265K. So what can we do with that? Please comment.
I believe this *will* fit on i386 1.44 root.bin and the 2.88 version.
Much of the stuff is text and should compress pretty well. Just bump
up the image sizes in the top-level makefile.
You just have to test it and see if it works.
This would only apply to idepci and compact flavors, right? Are you
going to change the top-level Makefile and/or config so that it can
automatically turn on/off the language chooser for the two flavors?
Do you need help with that?
For other arches, again, it probably should fit assuming they have
library reduction working; if not, they are out of luck. Oh well to
them.
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