On 02/06/2013 11:20 PM, Koehne Kai wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia....@qt-project.org >> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia....@qt-project.org] On >> Behalf Of Thiago Macieira >> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 6:42 AM >> To: development@qt-project.org >> Subject: Re: [Development] ICU and Windows >> >> [...] >> Also note that the data library is only an inconvenience now because we >> have duplicated data: the Unicode tables and CLDR locale data are in ICU and >> in QtCore. Once we remove our own copy of that data, the total size would >> be reduced. > True, but Qt5Core.dll is about 3,6 MB for me (5.0.1/MSVC 2010 32bit), while > icudt49.dll is 17,5 MB. So the size gain by stripping out things from Qt5Core > can't be really big. > >> I also think that we should configure ICU on Windows to reduce its data size: >> we don't need all of it. > That is what we should do indeed. I learned from > > http://userguide.icu-project.org/icudata > > that one can also ship the ICU data in separate .data files, located in a > "ICU data directory" that can be specified e.g. at compilation time. So how > about creating a bare minimum icudt.dll, and rather ship .data files in a > well-known place ($$[QT_INSTALL_ICU])? This would allow anyone with enough > knowledge to tailor what exactly they want to ship, while reducing the > footprint of "I don't care about localization for hello world" types of > applications.
Could documentation also be created on the data files, what each contains and how to include them in the project file? Thanks. > I've to say I'm not at all into Unicode/ICU. Anyone else want to take this up? > > > Regards > > Kai > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
