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From: Svyatogor <svyatogor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] better handling of multibyte characters (nls/cjk/unicode)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:43:14
Message-Id: 20031031154305.064fa12a.svyatogor@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] better handling of multibyte characters (nls/cjk/unicode) by Mamoru KOMACHI
1 On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:44:33 +0900
2 Mamoru KOMACHI <usata@g.o> wrote:
3 > Any objection if I add unicode USE flag (and make it default in all
4 > profiles) ? We cannot simply convert cjk USE flag to unicode, but in
5 > some cases unicode USE flag seems appropriate and we definitely need
6 > it. (currently dev-python/wxPython and x11-libs/wxGTK have unicode
7 > local USE flag and others use cjk or nls for unicode support)
8 >
9 > If nobody objects (and hopefully many approve ;) ) I'll create it this
10 > weekend.
11
12 I'd love to see this flag! However this should be *off* by default cause there are
13 some applications (like MC for example) which have troubles understanding unicode.
14
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