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From: Eldad Zack <eldad@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:15:04
Message-Id: 200603112229.20742.eldad@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default? by Patrick Lauer
1 On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:58, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > at FOSDEM we had a nice discussion about languages, translations etc.
5 > Having people from the US (wolf31o2) who never have problems and people
6 > from Japan (usata) who always have problems with encodings /
7 > charsets / ... was quite interesting.
8 >
9 > During that discussion we realized that having utf-8 not enabled by
10 > default and no utf8 fonts available by default causes lots of
11 > recompilation and reconfiguration.
12 >
13 > Enabling the unicode useflag in the profiles should help our
14 > international users and should not cause any problems. Are there any
15 > known bugs / problems this would trigger? Any reasons against that?
16
17 I've been hit by a bug in egroupware that's related to unicode.
18 unicode-enabled mysql reserves string keys multiplied by 3, egroupware
19 assumes (wrongly) that it won't cross the 1000 bytes key length boundry...
20
21 But that's really not a big deal.
22
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25 Eldad Zack <eldad@g.o>
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