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> > > unicode, or utf-8 ? |
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> > I personally vote for unicode, but if it is going to be enabled by |
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> > default (i.e. Gentoo support UTF-8 immediately after installation), |
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> > utf8 seems adequate rather than unicode. I just don't want to add |
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> > utf7, utf16, utf32 USE flags for each encoding but have unicode USE |
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> > flag which will support Unicode encodings (if any). |
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> Exactly. "unicode" should denote adding support for UCS-* or UTF-* |
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> encodings and internal representations. |
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I agree here, just wanted to get a statement out that it should |
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encompass both, since theres a few interesting aspects of UTF8 locales |
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and filenames. (Namely, gtk 1.2 doesn't like utf8 filenames , which |
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makes me want to deprecate it. I've been looking for a solution and for |
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all that I can see no -easy- one was avaiable. ) |
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> > > There ought to be some magic to convert locales to utf-8 as well |
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> > > if this is enabled. |
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> > I'm thinking that it isn't time to make the USE flag default yet |
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> > (liquidx is working on getting UTF-8 down on Gentoo system). Anyhow, |
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> > creating unicode/utf8 USE flag and making it default are two |
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> > different> matters and we can discuss them separately. |
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> Anyhow, the generation of UTF-8 locales can be accomplished by a patch |
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> to glibc which could be applied depending on the unicode USE flag. |
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> I've got one such patch around, I'll submit a bug to track it in |
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> bugzilla soon. |
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Yeah, I haven't spoken for making it Default, even if I could go radical |
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and demand it default and that we remove all legacy software that |
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doesn't cut it.... *G* (No, I don't intend to ;) |
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However, as for the locale genereation patch, that would be very |
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welcome, and i think that alone would make a "unicode" useflag valid. |
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I'm all for this. |
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//Spider |
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