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From: Mamoru KOMACHI <usata@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] better handling of multibyte characters (nls/cjk/unicode)
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:07:07
Message-Id: 86oevw5m3j.wl%usata@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] better handling of multibyte characters (nls/cjk/unicode) by Spider
1 Hi,
2
3 At Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:05:30 +0100,
4 Spider wrote:
5
6 > > 1. Create global USE flag named "unicode" which enables
7 > > Unicode(including UTF-7/UTF-8/UTF-16 and so on) support.
8 > > 2. Don't make it default in any profiles. (We will consider it later
9 > > when those applications settle down.)
10
11 > Sounds great.
12
13 I've just added unicode USE flag :)
14
15 > proposed addition to baselayout:
16 >
17 > if [ `use unicode` ] ;
18 > then
19 > cat >> ${D}/etc/rc.conf << EOF
20 > # This setting enables a default UTF-8 locale for your system.
21 > # please look inside /usr/share/locale for more examples
22 > LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
23 >
24 > EOF
25 > fi
26 >
27 > This is rough, but something like it perhaps?
28
29 If http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9988 "setting LANG variable"
30 is implemented we may think about it, but I don't think the system
31 should set LANG variable (at least) until then.
32
33 --
34 Mamoru KOMACHI <usata@g.o>
35 http://www.gentoo.org/~usata/
36
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