Re: size of emacs executable after unicode merge

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:10:06 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden
> 
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> The problem is that lisp/international/characters.el setups
> >> syntax-table and category-table for many characters by
> >> map-charset-chars.
> >>
> >> Ex: (map-charset-chars #'modify-category-entry 'chinese-gb2312 ?c)
> >
> >> To know which (Unicode) characters belongs to
> >> chinese-gb2312, Emacs has to load a mapping table.
> >
> > I guess that means we need to precompute the category table and other
> > tables populated in that way, so we can just load them during the dump
> > without needing to populate the other maps.
> 
> That doesn't sound like it can be done within the timeframe for the 23.1
> release.

I'm not sure; it's not like 23.1 release date is tomorrow or next
week.

In any case, if we decide not to solve this for Emacs 23.1, we should
have an entry in PROBLEMS about it.