Re: is glib too bloated?

[Jake Goulding <goulding vivisimo com>]

Brandon Casey wrote:
> It's hard for me to think of unicode as
> being low-level when it adds so much overhead to string handling. 

Isn't (a part of) the unicode handling needed for correctly processing 
paths under Windows? As I remember it, Windows-native calls take either 
ASCII or a slightly modified UTF-16LE (aka UCS-2). In order to be able 
to have code that needs to open "strangely" named files on any platform, 
at least a modicum of unicode support is needed. Once you have that, 
including gettext as a dependency seems straight-forward.