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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, yngwin@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 in GLEP56 use flags? WAS: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-libs/qt-assistant: ChangeLog qt-assistant-4.4.1.ebuild qt-assistant-4.4.2.ebuild metadata.xml
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:54:31
Message-Id: 20081001213942.GJ7634@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
1 On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:13:14PM +0000, Ben de Groot (yngwin) wrote:
2 > Index: metadata.xml
3 > ===================================================================
4 ...
5 > + <flag name='webkit'>
6 > + Enable <pkg>x11-libs/qt-webkit</pkg> support, for more
7 > + sophisticated online help display using webkit???s HTML renderer.
8 > + </flag>
9 > + </use>
10 > </pkgmetadata>
11
12 I don't think there is any precedence here, but Unicode should not turn
13 up in the English useflag descriptions, at least not while we are still
14 generating use.local.desc for users.
15
16 This one was really annoying, U+2019 "Right single quotation mark",
17 which renders identically to an apostrophe, at least on my fonts.
18
19 It briefly broke the use.local.desc generation, because that had been
20 set for ASCII.
21
22 Should we allow UTF-8 in the English variant? Are all the programs that
23 still read use.local.desc UTF-8 safe? Do we have a deprecation schedule
24 for use.local.desc being removed totally?
25
26 --
27 Robin Hugh Johnson
28 Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
29 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
30 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85

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Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 in GLEP56 use flags? Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>