Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -unicode USE flag

[Mark Knecht]

On 5/13/06, Sven Köhler <skoehler@×××.de> wrote:
> >   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. ;-)
> >
> >   What is unicode and why might an end user want it or need it?
>
> What the "unicode"-use-flag does, depends on the package you emerge.
>
> For example while emergeing baselayout, it turns on a switch in
> /etc/rc.conf - nothing more.
>
> On the other hand, while emerge mc, it turns on the support of mc
> (Midnight Command) for a unicode/utf8-console.
>
> And if you emerge wxGTK, the unicode-use-flag triggers the build of the
> unicode-aware version of wxGTK.
>
> So in general, i prefer my console- and my X11-apps to have unicode
> support. So i have the use-flag turned on, but i disabled it for
> baselayout since i use a non-utf8 locale.
>
>
> Greetings
>   Sven

Sven,
   Thanks for the descriptions. However what I asked was 'What is
unicode and why might an end user want it or need it?" and not "What
does enabling a unicode flag for a specific emerge do?"

   Sorry - I thought it was clear from my description. Everyone is
using the word 'unicode' in the definition of 'unicode', or so it is
seeming to me. I've managed to get far enough to understand it's a
different way of expressing font usage, I guess, but I don't
understand when someone would want it or when they would not need it.

   Is there a Gentoo doc somewhere that I haven't read yet that says
'If you are in the U.S. and use Gentoo on a mostly desktop system
browsing the web, etc., then you should enable unicode', etc.?

Thanks,
Mark

Thanks,
Mark

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