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On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:58 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> at FOSDEM we had a nice discussion about languages, translations etc. |
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> Having people from the US (wolf31o2) who never have problems and people |
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> from Japan (usata) who always have problems with encodings / |
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> charsets / ... was quite interesting. |
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> During that discussion we realized that having utf-8 not enabled by |
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> default and no utf8 fonts available by default causes lots of |
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> recompilation and reconfiguration. |
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> Enabling the unicode useflag in the profiles should help our |
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> international users and should not cause any problems. Are there any |
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> known bugs / problems this would trigger? Any reasons against that? |
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> If there are no objections this should be a small but helpful change. |
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> On a tangent I wonder if pulling in extra fonts as a dependency of X |
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> makes sense (useflag controlled, enabled by default) - that way the |
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> unicode capabilities are available without any configuration. |
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I forget where I read it but I thought that unicode lead to overflows |
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and was considered a general security risk. I wish I knew where I read |
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that but I'm unable to find it. |
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Any list readers know anything relating to that? |
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