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Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:

> > It's there so that people can find the facility and have the option
> > not to load it, since it involves quite large tables.
> 
> For such a case, isn't `feature' enough?  Those who want
> this feature just does (require FEATURE).

Well, that's not supposed to change the way Emacs works, but also, I
think such things should be in Custom so that people can find them in
the first place.