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 j43IVGUn019280 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 18:31:16 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DT2B0-0001pV-UE for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 18:31:23 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DT2AU-0001WU-EX for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 19:30:50 +0100 Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 19:30:46 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] duplicated USE flag (unicode & utf8) Message-ID: <20050503193046.59fc95f5@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <200505031421.58254.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200505031421.58254.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Message-Flag: It's a feature, not a bug 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Tue__3_May_2005_19_30_46_+0100_RIEaT==.MnChTu6Z"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: eb389492-c2d6-47c0-9b88-fa49ea158f8f X-Archives-Hash: 9ce70fd1beb2a972af663bbdb9fe6b79 --Signature_Tue__3_May_2005_19_30_46_+0100_RIEaT==.MnChTu6Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 ... |=20 | 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Tue__3_May_2005_19_30_46_+0100_RIEaT==.MnChTu6Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCd8NZ96zL6DUtXhERAs1PAJ4uUXaYETyCU+Znl8HRu8lUYSuNcgCfbU1X jxmUy2sJriWK0b8C5Efjdkk= =wfeH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Tue__3_May_2005_19_30_46_+0100_RIEaT==.MnChTu6Z-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list