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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] Unicode/UTF-8 support for XFS
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 07:55:59 -0700
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Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> writes:
>
> Strings are normalized using a trie that stores the relevant
> information.  The trie itself is about 250kB in size, and lives in a
> separate module.

So 250kB bloat -- and what does this fix exactly?

Someone putting random ligatures into their file names and expecting
the file to be the same as before. Can't they just not do that?

-Andi