Re: [PATCH 1/2] busybox: enable unicode support

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2019-07-17 at 12:08 +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> While creating and deleting files with unicode or other
> encodings works, it's annoying when ls and other core utils
> show questionmarks instead of the unicode characters.
> In 2019, it's quite common that users of embedded devices
> based on yocto need unicode support. Debugging a box with
> unicode encoded file names is a bit annoying when core utils
> from busybox don't support them.
> 
> The unicode config fragment has the same config as Debian in their
> deb and udeb builds of version 1:1.30.1-4.
> 
> If developers do not want this or other default yocto features in
> busybox,
> or optimize the configuration for size, then they likely run a
> completely
> custom configuration. Thus I think it's safe to enable unicode
> support
> by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@bmw.de>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/unicode.cfg | 10 ++++++++++
>  meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.31.0.bb   |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/unicode.cfg

Can you give an idea of the size implications of this change?

Cheers,

Richard