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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.


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