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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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>> > http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml |
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>> > unicode Adds support for Unicode |
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>> > I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-) |
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>> Or figured the reader would know how to use google... :-) |
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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? 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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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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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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Jim |
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