Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

[Mark Knecht]

On 5/13/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
> On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than
> > the Gentoo description located here:
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml
> >
> > unicode         Adds support for Unicode
> >
> >    I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-)
>
> Or figured the reader would know how to use google... :-)
>
> http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html
>
> -Richard

That much I did before writing. There are lots of similar sites. Thanks.

However, being a musican and not a computer scientist all of that is
mostly gibberish to lower life forms such as myself. The unicode flag
possibility shows up on some new emerges for fonts. I suppose they are
then fonts that use 16-bits instead of whatever they use when I don't
include the unicaode flag. All that stated, then question still
arises, why would I want these on my system?

Thanks,
Mark

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