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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:58:52PM +0100, Francesco R.(vivo) wrote: |
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> as subject says could gentoo change the policy and set an UTF-8 environment by |
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> default? |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml how to do it very well but having it |
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> already set could have the following two advantages: |
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> 1) well utf-8 is everywhere, even the linux weekly newsletter has it in 2012 |
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> 2) the user need to change, not to create a /etc/env.d/XX-lc, creating a |
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> standard place where every gentoo install has this settings. |
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> contra? |
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> P.S. would be nice to have a wd_WD.UTF-8 with WD standing for world, just a |
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> country is so 1900 |
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wd_WD.UTF-8 is certainly a no go. WD doesn't match any ISO country |
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code. To support it, we'd have to create the necessary supporting |
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files and that would lead to a lot of work and headaches trying to |
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determine what should be where in what order, et cetera. |
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All of the files we create (ebuilds, initscripts) are UTF-8 in |
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accordance with GLEP 31. So, the issue would be with upstream projects |
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not using UTF-8 for their files. |
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However, the stage 3, last time I used it, didn't default to a UTF-8 |
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environment, and it didn't default to using and/or including a capable |
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UTF-8 font. It is something I think we should look at changing. |
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Mr. Aaron W. Swenson |
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