Re: size of emacs executable after unicode merge

[Chong Yidong]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> The problem is that lisp/international/characters.el setups
> syntax-table and category-table for many characters by
> map-charset-chars.
>
> Ex: (map-charset-chars #'modify-category-entry 'chinese-gb2312 ?c)
>
> To know which (Unicode) characters belongs to
> chinese-gb2312, Emacs has to load a mapping table.

Could you try to describe what needs to be done in more detail?  That
way, even if you don't have time to implement this, someone else might
be able to take a stab at it.