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On 5/13/06, Jim <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > On 5/13/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> >> On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> > Hi, |
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> >> > I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than |
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> >> > the Gentoo description located here: |
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> >> > |
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> >> > http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml |
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> >> > |
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> >> > unicode Adds support for Unicode |
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> >> > |
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> >> > I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-) |
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> >> |
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> >> Or figured the reader would know how to use google... :-) |
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> >> |
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> >> http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html |
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> >> -Richard |
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> > That much I did before writing. There are lots of similar sites. Thanks. |
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> > However, being a musican and not a computer scientist all of that is |
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> > mostly gibberish to lower life forms such as myself. The unicode flag |
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> > possibility shows up on some new emerges for fonts. I suppose they are |
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> > then fonts that use 16-bits instead of whatever they use when I don't |
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> > include the unicaode flag. All that stated, then question still |
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> > arises, why would I want these on my system? |
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> Do you speak languages other then English? |
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No, I barely speak English actually.... |
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> If so, that is where Unicode |
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> can come in. It can handle a lot more characters then just the English |
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> alphabet. |
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OK, so I thought that was what I was accomplishing that with the cjk |
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flag and by adding UTF8 to my kernel .config file. There is one place |
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I have required this support in the past. I have digitized my complete |
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CD collection and found that a number of CDs had special accents on |
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(mostly) French and German names. However it seemed that adding the |
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stuff I speak of was enough. POssibly it was just enough to get by? |
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> I only speak and read English and have no need for those "funny" |
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> characters so I built my systems with a global use flag of -unicode. |
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> It won't hurt to include Unicode. Basically if you want to work with |
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> any language other then English, just enable Unicode. |
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I guess I'll look more deeply into it. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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