From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j43IjmLQ028531 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 18:45:48 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DT2P5-0004s5-PN for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 18:45:55 +0000 Received: (qmail 27259 invoked from network); 3 May 2005 14:39:55 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 3 May 2005 14:39:55 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] duplicated USE flag (unicode & utf8) Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:47:37 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505031421.58254.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050503193046.59fc95f5@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050503193046.59fc95f5@snowdrop> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505031447.37946.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9a59f48a-d3c0-4b3b-b63a-fed646ce72a2 X-Archives-Hash: 440edb33660983e41a2eabac28875d07 On Tuesday 03 May 2005 02:30 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:21:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger > > wrote: > | as many know, i dont use unicode, so i'm a bit ignorant of it ... > | > | is there a good reason for having both a global 'unicode' USE flag and > | a bunch of local 'utf8' USE flags ? or should i file bugs for people > | to stop using 'utf8' and use 'unicode' instead ? > > utf8 is a particular way of encoding unicode. I'd say that the 'unicode' > flag would be sufficient, except if for some reason the following > bizarre setup were to occur: yeah, that is pretty weird, and i'm pretty sure that doesnt apply to the 4 packages i noticed :) besides, it's not like we're tackling utf16 / utf32 / blah (yet) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list