From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] duplicated USE flag (unicode & utf8)
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 19:30:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050503193046.59fc95f5@snowdrop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505031421.58254.vapier@gentoo.org>
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On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:21:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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:
fooapp has unicode support. fooapp has optional support for the utf-8
encoding which pulls in an additional dependency.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-03 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-03 18:21 [gentoo-dev] duplicated USE flag (unicode & utf8) Mike Frysinger
2005-05-03 18:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-05-03 18:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-08 15:33 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-05-08 23:51 ` [gentoo-dev] duplicated USE flag (unicode & utf8), [gentoo-dev] Mike Frysinger
2005-05-04 4:29 ` [gentoo-dev] duplicated USE flag (unicode & utf8) Mike Frysinger
2005-05-04 11:12 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
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