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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:27:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602280927.56210.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141127274.7962.114.camel@localhost>

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 06:47, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:32 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:58, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > At the same time, you'll probably hear people bitching about UTF-8 being
> > enabled because "it's not needed for me, should be the rest of the world
> > to change"....
>
> It is still optional, just enabled by default :-)
> All the people with non-ASCII charsets will have less work, only that we
> switch the load from, say, 75% of the users fixing their environment to
> 25% of users having to switch.

hopefully people will fix their packages to respect USE=unicode as to whether 
they link against libncurses or libncursesw
-mike

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-28 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-28 10:58 [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default? Patrick Lauer
2006-02-28 11:32 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-02-28 11:47   ` Patrick Lauer
2006-02-28 12:11     ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-02-28 14:27     ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2006-02-28 12:50 ` Lars Weiler
2006-02-28 13:50   ` Patrick Lauer
2006-02-28 14:46     ` Joseph Jezak
2006-02-28 16:24   ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-03-04 12:46     ` Alexander Simonov
2006-03-04 20:13       ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-02-28 16:51 ` Josh
2006-02-28 17:47 ` solar
2006-02-28 17:53   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-28 18:25   ` Bryan Østergaard
2006-02-28 19:18   ` Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
2006-02-28 20:23     ` solar
2006-02-28 23:51 ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2006-03-08  7:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mathieu Bonnet
2006-03-09 20:25 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
2006-03-11 20:29 ` Eldad Zack

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