From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FE8zP-0007iA-3x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:50:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SHmcxB007028; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:48:38 GMT Received: from mail01.emarketsouth.com (mail01.emarketsouth.com [208.247.233.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SHkf1H020330 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:46:42 GMT Received: (qmail 25458 invoked by uid 399); 28 Feb 2006 17:48:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO onyx) (64.192.54.4) by mail01.emarketsouth.com with SMTP; 28 Feb 2006 17:48:56 -0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default? From: solar To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1141124283.7962.74.camel@localhost> References: <1141124283.7962.74.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:47:33 -0500 Message-Id: <1141148853.4294.17.camel@onyx> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5c072625-5066-4f34-bdfc-34c82ec3c1c4 X-Archives-Hash: a7b803dba6d2f7b4c5429521131b21a1 On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:58 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Hi all, > > at FOSDEM we had a nice discussion about languages, translations etc. > Having people from the US (wolf31o2) who never have problems and people > from Japan (usata) who always have problems with encodings / > charsets / ... was quite interesting. > > During that discussion we realized that having utf-8 not enabled by > default and no utf8 fonts available by default causes lots of > recompilation and reconfiguration. > > Enabling the unicode useflag in the profiles should help our > international users and should not cause any problems. Are there any > known bugs / problems this would trigger? Any reasons against that? > > If there are no objections this should be a small but helpful change. > > On a tangent I wonder if pulling in extra fonts as a dependency of X > makes sense (useflag controlled, enabled by default) - that way the > unicode capabilities are available without any configuration. I forget where I read it but I thought that unicode lead to overflows and was considered a general security risk. I wish I knew where I read that but I'm unable to find it. Any list readers know anything relating to that? -- solar Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list