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Lars Weiler wrote: |
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> * Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> [06/02/28 11:58 +0100]: |
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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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> It is enabled by default. At least on ppc. And that since, |
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> uhm, summer 2004? |
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> I can't say if there are any problems, as I didn't received |
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> a bug for a long time. |
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Well there are a few problems, but yes I cannot name them now. |
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Using Japanese, Cyrillic and English in a few encodings each is a big nightmare. |
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Nowadays I try to move everything to UTF-8, but there are those windoze users |
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and webdevs that make all Japanese in Shift_JIS ... So support of wide range of |
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encodings is a must, but UTF-8 is the truth. |
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> The only thing that's nasty: we don't have any good utf8-fonts for the console. |
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And not only the console. |
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Even for xterm there are not many good fonts (known to me) that display both Japanese |
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and Cyrillic in regular and bold. Currently there is only on combination that works for me. |
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So fonts, font config and related stuff is what has to be fixed first. |
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Kalin. |
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P.S. And before fixed, it has to be filed... Promise to take notes (again) when I see something. |
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