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From: Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:56:40
Message-Id: 4404E1E4.8010503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default? by Patrick Lauer
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4 Patrick Lauer skrev:
5 > Hi all,
6 >
7 > at FOSDEM we had a nice discussion about languages, translations etc.
8 > Having people from the US (wolf31o2) who never have problems and people
9 > from Japan (usata) who always have problems with encodings /
10 > charsets / ... was quite interesting.
11 >
12 > During that discussion we realized that having utf-8 not enabled by
13 > default and no utf8 fonts available by default causes lots of
14 > recompilation and reconfiguration.
15 >
16 > Enabling the unicode useflag in the profiles should help our
17 > international users and should not cause any problems. Are there any
18 > known bugs / problems this would trigger? Any reasons against that?
19 >
20 > If there are no objections this should be a small but helpful change.
21 >
22 > On a tangent I wonder if pulling in extra fonts as a dependency of X
23 > makes sense (useflag controlled, enabled by default) - that way the
24 > unicode capabilities are available without any configuration.
25 >
26 > Patrick
27
28 I think it would be nice to have it enabled too :-)
29 You got my vote.
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