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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.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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  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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