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From: Mike Doty <kingtaco@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:21:00
Message-Id: 447F3CD0.80007@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals by Paul de Vrieze
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4 Paul de Vrieze wrote:
5 > On Thursday 01 June 2006 20:19, Jan Kundrát wrote:
6 >> Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
7 >>> Summing up:
8 >>> * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad?
9 >> The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die in piece.
10 >
11 > Would it be possible to do automatic detection and unicode conversion in the
12 > portage install stage? I think that would probably be the best option. At a
13 > later stage a simple detection and warning might be sufficient.
14 >
15 > Paul
16 >
17 I'd agree. Forcing UTF-8/unicode on those of us who don't want the extra
18 bloat is a "bad thing"
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