[illumos-Developer] webrev: some locale cleanups/improvements

[Albert Lee]

Looks fine to me.

-Albert

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
>> http://mexico.purplecow.org/gdamore/webrev/noascii/
>>
>> This removes support for 7-bit ASCII, kind of.  Basically, we can always
>> treat that as 8-bit clean data, the same way we treat the C/POSIX locale and
>> all 8859-x locales.  An extra enforcement that complains when you try to use
>> a byte with the high order bit offers no value.  (This encoding scheme was
>> never used, and was an addition from FreeBSD...  Solaris and illumos don't
>> have any locales that use it.)
>>
>> At the same I've made some very minor changes to UTF-8 which eliminate some
>> extra tests during conversion between wide and multi-byte string formats.
>>  This will have a very small performance benefit on anything that does these
>> operations -- which is most everything that does sorting or display, and a
>> bunch of other things -- the path is actually pretty hot especially for
>> those running graphical desktops.
>
> The changes look good for me. r=roland.mainz at nrubsig.org ...
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