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On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:21:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| as many know, i dont use unicode, so i'm a bit ignorant of it ... |
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| is there a good reason for having both a global 'unicode' USE flag and |
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| a bunch of local 'utf8' USE flags ? or should i file bugs for people |
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| to stop using 'utf8' and use 'unicode' instead ? |
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utf8 is a particular way of encoding unicode. I'd say that the 'unicode' |
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flag would be sufficient, except if for some reason the following |
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bizarre setup were to occur: |
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fooapp has unicode support. fooapp has optional support for the utf-8 |
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encoding which pulls in an additional dependency. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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