Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo-UTF8

[Lim Swee Tat]

Hi,
  It will be interesting to see this happen.  Does this happen at the
xfree layer of things or does this happen at the kde level of things??
  I'm interested to help out with this.

Ciao
ST Lim

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:41, Greg Aumann wrote:
> I am quite interested in converting my gentoo system to UTF-8. I haven't
> gone any further than using a UTF-8 locale yet. I am also writing an
> ebuild for the Openi18n input method framework
> http://www.openi18n.org/subgroups/im/IIIMF/
>
> I am particularly interested in input methods, fonts and getting Chinese
> going under UTF-8.
>
> Greg
>
> > Hello,
> >   I'm looking for some advice to make a Gentoo installation thats
> > completely UTF-8 compliant.  This is a developer  issue, as I'm also
> > looking for what regards will be required from our side to make UTF-8
> > the default for applications and userspace tools, as well as how to make
> > it work nicely in the console.
> >
> > So far I think RedHat is the one distribution thats "ahead" in this
> > case, (I haven't had the chance to try SuSe) but they fail too (gtk+-1.2
> > for example will make fun things happen when it hits öæøØÆÅÄÖåä )
> >
> > So, a roadmap of sorts, perhaps documentation and a list of "broken
> > apps" in regards to this would be a nice start, and then providing
> > buildfixes and patches to make things work as supposed....
> >
> >
> > yep, this goal is pretty big and will be a long time thing that should
> > probably be covered by USE="utf8"  or other flag, but in this case I'm
> > looking for input from developers and users who have ideas on how to
> > make this happen and make it a smooth transition.
> >
> >
> > //Spider
>
>
>
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