From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FE3mL-0003w6-1v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:16:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SCDiC8003841; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:13:44 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1SC9wEY031287 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:09:59 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 67so115100wri for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:11:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:x-face:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:sender; b=K3QmBRBCWdkY/vGrjzP/xK4xYyI82vBfi2Bi6a/AJJ0Tg0HewjdJzlYUZ+h0IfXIyWrOfhzgXYhujHcP4klx21XdL8xIMsQ+SFEMUr8swUvSgpkyHZJEWTQy13HQscvSELdPlPew2maAvKi5fF8551h+c+FzJP2KCsEX/R7AMHY= Received: by 10.65.212.4 with SMTP id o4mr3829505qbq; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:11:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org ( [151.56.65.203]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id e17sm1071747qbe.2006.02.28.04.11.05; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:11:08 -0800 (PST) From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?q?Petten=C3=B2?=" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default? Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:11:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1141124283.7962.74.camel@localhost> <200602281232.48627@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <1141127274.7962.114.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1141127274.7962.114.camel@localhost> X-Face: +=-v@W}H`=.Bn2t&97Un7{[.c0aP0"8)JI?7Z?E>l>ZNY|,=?utf-8?q?mL=5C3bs=0A=09xW=23jRz=7CVa=5C?=@NIS3-'W[F.^YLqK=rS:D*Ke`Y5giI@$(xIBQ<0i740;wuI{lYd>>=?utf-8?q?eFVDuAr=0A=09=3Br=5B*=7E/zd=604dEI?= 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="nextPart5345543.GCHniLD7AN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602281311.03331@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Sender: "=?UTF-8?Q?Diego=20\"Flameeyes\"=20Petten=C3=B2?=" X-Archives-Salt: 66c1ef4c-53f9-4ef5-b1fd-70390abad294 X-Archives-Hash: 4a8a0e9cd065663b2a3c6b78505fd401 --nextPart5345543.GCHniLD7AN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:47, Patrick Lauer wrote: > It is still optional, just enabled by default :-) Would be enough to be criticized probably, mainly by english-speaking users= =20 that doesn't care of extended characters. Although, this would follow also the direction of both Apple and Microsoft,= =20 the first providing, the other saying that will provide, an always-unicoded= =20 system. That is probably the way to allow an easier access to Gentoo for non-englis= h=20 speaking people, too. > So - apart from some users maybe not wanting it, any technical reasons > against? I'll wait for the "clutter" comment by users and maybe devs. I was criticized for enabling unicode forcefully on vlc because of a=20 source-code bug that prevented non-unicode wxGTK to be used to build it,=20 after that I'm always expecting some sort of problem :P > > I'd be the first to be interested in having it enabled by default, tho. > Yes, otherwise spelling your name is almost impossible :-) That, and I'm actually trying to find time to learn Japanese :P But time is something I don't have abundant :| =2D-=20 Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=C3=B2 - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE --nextPart5345543.GCHniLD7AN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEBD3Xe2h1+2mHVWMRAmRqAJ41M5IH1HA/q9NfXpn85KjqB6lmBwCePT52 t2OKCvKAm/af6pSKW1Fdfwo= =oyAt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5345543.GCHniLD7AN-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list