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[Björnke von Gierke]

A large part of the unicode bloat comes from the dictionaries. They are a kind of language descriptor for almost every written language on earth, their dialects, and synonym ways to write a character. If you're only really interested in european languages, being able to disable 99% of those will make the engine as small as it was before the changes. I don't know if disabling those will impede people from writing chinese or cyrilic in your app tho, if the appropriate definitions where removed.

On 09 Jul 2014, at 10:46, Robert Brenstein <rjb at robelko.com> wrote:

> On 08.07.2014 at 20:36 Uhr +0300 Richmond apparently wrote:
>> 
>> Frankly if all I need is a title: I'll make it in a textField in the IDE, tweak it around and do an "import
>> snapshot" so I end up with an image - then no Unicode needed at all. You'd have to be daft to include
>> 'a bloater' of a library just for the sake of a title.
>> 
>> Richmond.
>> 
> 
> Considering that the percentage of applications that do not need text at all (no title, no error message, including no runtime message from the the LC engine) is probably really, really tiny, the question is whether it is worth the trouble to implement and support such a switch.