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From: Spider <spider@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] better handling of multibyte characters (nls/cjk/unicode)
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:50:19
Message-Id: 20031105145015.4694f0d6.spider@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] better handling of multibyte characters (nls/cjk/unicode) by Martin Schlemmer
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2 On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:10:50 +0200
3 Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o> wrote:
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7 > I do not see why. If you enable utf8 support, it does not
8 > mean you want it in console. The user should specify his
9 > LANG himself, as well as the fact that it should rather be:
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11 > ELANG="en_US.UTF-8"
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13 > and then get it to propagate only to the users, as there are
14 > still a lot of things breaking during build with LANG, et el
15 > set.
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17 Ahh, thats very true. Except that I'd still want it documented. Yep,
18 I'm having a drive for UTF-8 right now, I've ran into places where I
19 need filenames in UTF-8 and most things have started to break otherwise.
20 unpleasant compability problems.
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23 //Spider
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29 See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] better handling of multibyte characters (nls/cjk/unicode) Stanislav Brabec <utx@×××××××.cz>