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[Richard Gaskin]

Björnke von Gierke wrote:

 > 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.

With all the talk of making the engine more modular this seems a 
relatively easy one-stop way to cut the engine size in half for those 
who know they only need Latin-ISO 8859-1 for a given app.

Anyone submit a request for a checkbox for this in the Standalone Builder?

Is this even doable?  If not, could it be made doable?

15 MB base size is a bit much.

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