Working with UTF-8 in the kernel
Working with UTF-8 in the kernel
Posted Mar 29, 2019 9:31 UTC (Fri) by dezgeg (guest, #92243)In reply to: Working with UTF-8 in the kernel by Cyberax
Parent article: Working with UTF-8 in the kernel
Having the data tables readable from /proc sounds unattractive due to this part from the article:
"The UTF-8 patches incorporate these rules by processing the provided files into a data structure in a C header file. A fair amount of space is then regained by removing the information for decomposing Hangul (Korean) code points into their base components, since this is a task that can be done algorithmically as well."
Exporting these non-standard tables to userspace would lock in this custom format implementation detail forever.
