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I am quite interested in converting my gentoo system to UTF-8. I haven't |
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gone any further than using a UTF-8 locale yet. I am also writing an |
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ebuild for the Openi18n input method framework |
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http://www.openi18n.org/subgroups/im/IIIMF/ |
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I am particularly interested in input methods, fonts and getting Chinese |
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going under UTF-8. |
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Greg |
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> Hello, |
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> I'm looking for some advice to make a Gentoo installation thats |
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> completely UTF-8 compliant. This is a developer issue, as I'm also |
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> looking for what regards will be required from our side to make UTF-8 |
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> the default for applications and userspace tools, as well as how to make |
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> it work nicely in the console. |
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> So far I think RedHat is the one distribution thats "ahead" in this |
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> case, (I haven't had the chance to try SuSe) but they fail too (gtk+-1.2 |
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> for example will make fun things happen when it hits öæøØÆÅÄÖåä ) |
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> So, a roadmap of sorts, perhaps documentation and a list of "broken |
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> apps" in regards to this would be a nice start, and then providing |
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> buildfixes and patches to make things work as supposed.... |
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> yep, this goal is pretty big and will be a long time thing that should |
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> probably be covered by USE="utf8" or other flag, but in this case I'm |
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> looking for input from developers and users who have ideas on how to |
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> make this happen and make it a smooth transition. |
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> //Spider |
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