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On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:47, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> It is still optional, just enabled by default :-) |
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Would be enough to be criticized probably, mainly by english-speaking users |
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that doesn't care of extended characters. |
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Although, this would follow also the direction of both Apple and Microsoft, |
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the first providing, the other saying that will provide, an always-unicoded |
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system. |
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That is probably the way to allow an easier access to Gentoo for non-english |
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speaking people, too. |
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> So - apart from some users maybe not wanting it, any technical reasons |
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> against? |
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I'll wait for the "clutter" comment by users and maybe devs. |
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I was criticized for enabling unicode forcefully on vlc because of a |
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source-code bug that prevented non-unicode wxGTK to be used to build it, |
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after that I'm always expecting some sort of problem :P |
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> > I'd be the first to be interested in having it enabled by default, tho. |
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> Yes, otherwise spelling your name is almost impossible :-) |
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That, and I'm actually trying to find time to learn Japanese :P |
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But time is something I don't have abundant :| |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |
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