Re: lynx-dev [PATCH][dev21] the binary size battle: disabling charsets

[Bela Lubkin]

John Bley wrote:

> Here's an idea for allowing extra rope to hang yourself on binary size: 
> disabling all the character sets except ISO-8859-1 and 7-bit ASCII 
> approximations.  It makes for a roughly 79KB decrease (here).

I suggested what I still believe is a better path in this matter: make
the character sets dynamically loadable.  The two defaults you've chosen
should probably continue to be hard-compiled in.  That way a bare Lynx
binary which has become dissociated from its support files is still more
or less usable.

I would guess that the code to handle loading charsets as needed would
be perhaps 1-2K of binary size.  So we'd still get about the same net
gain, except *everyone* would get it, and we wouldn't have to think
about whether to turn it on.

>Bela<