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>>>>> "Spider" == Spider <spider@g.o> writes: |
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Spider> I'm looking for some advice to make a Gentoo installation |
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Spider> thats completely UTF-8 compliant. This is a developer |
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Spider> issue, ... |
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The first step is to fix the glibc ebuilds to install utf8 locales |
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w/o requiring manual intervention after every upgrade. |
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There are some apps that just don't work in utf8 -- acroread of |
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course has the standard kludge in its script, one of the chinese |
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dictionaries only displays useful fonts if it is invoked in a zh |
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locale, etc -- so getting a list of them would be a good starting |
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point. |
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There are also some subtle issues with some apps. Scribus has an |
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interesting bug where, when running in a (some?) utf8 locale(s) |
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one part of the code will deal correctly with utf8, but another |
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treats U+0080..U+00FF as single-octet latin1. Issues like that |
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could exist in other apps. |
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The above said, I do almost everything these days in utf8 and see |
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very few issues. |
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-JimC |
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