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On Tuesday 03 May 2005 02:30 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:21:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |
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> | as many know, i dont use unicode, so i'm a bit ignorant of it ... |
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> | is there a good reason for having both a global 'unicode' USE flag and |
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> | a bunch of local 'utf8' USE flags ? or should i file bugs for people |
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> | to stop using 'utf8' and use 'unicode' instead ? |
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> utf8 is a particular way of encoding unicode. I'd say that the 'unicode' |
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> flag would be sufficient, except if for some reason the following |
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> bizarre setup were to occur: |
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yeah, that is pretty weird, and i'm pretty sure that doesnt apply to the 4 |
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packages i noticed :) |
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besides, it's not like we're tackling utf16 / utf32 / blah (yet) |
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-mike |
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