Re: [gentoo-dev] CJK testing

[Stuart Bouyer]

On 月, 2002-07-29 at 01:59, Thomas Beaudry wrote:
> >>the packages are
> >>
> >>net-mail/mutt-1.4-r2.ebuild
> >>dev-db/postgresql-7.2.1-r2.ebuild
> >
> >I'm already changed the postgresql ebuild like you did
> >and I used "--enable-multibyte" for some time. It works.
> >You ebuild compiles well.
> >  The only problem I see is the name "CJK".
> >I use unicode for other languages, for example in order to have in the
> >same database latin1 and latin2. Is difficult to guess for an
> >east-european user that it should use "CJK" for it's language.
> >I would prefer if the use flag should be called in a more general way.
> >  (unicode)
> >
> >Marko
>
> I'm with Marko.  The use flag should be unicode.  More accurate
> description of what it's for even if people are only using it for
> CJK support at the moment.
>
>
The reason that CJK was chosen was that untill postgresql, I have only
ever seen --enable-multibyte used for adding Asian font capabilities. It
wasn't till this response that I was even aware that postgresql used it
to add support for unicode (and others as well). I'll have to look at
this issue in more depth because on occasion adding Asian support
sometimes kills Russian or Greek support. May have to add an additional
flag. 

Unicode in this case is better, but not actually more accurate as
unicode is just 1 of many encodings that postgresql activate with
--enable-multibyte. multibyte or i18n might be more appropriate?

 
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