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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] better handling of multibyte characters (nls/cjk/unicode)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:34:34
Message-Id: 200308131934.34607.vapier@gentoo.org
1 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26561
2 <summary>
3 At the moment the relevant USE flags seem to be:
4 cjk - Adds support for Multi-byte character languages (Chinese, Japanese,
5 Korean)
6
7 nls - Adds Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
8
9 If I want to enable unicode support or similar for an application (say, vim)
10 only cjk seems applicable at the moment, and is a tad misleading (there are
11 hundreds of other languages in unicode!).
12 </summary>
13
14 please post your input ... personally i'd prefer if everyone just learned
15 ASCII compliant languages ;)
16 -mike
17
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