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From: Eldad Zack <eldad@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:29:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603112229.20742.eldad@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141124283.7962.74.camel@localhost>

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On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:58, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> at FOSDEM we had a nice discussion about languages, translations etc.
> Having people from the US (wolf31o2) who never have problems and people
> from Japan (usata) who always have problems with encodings /
> charsets / ... was quite interesting.
>
> 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.
>
> Enabling the unicode useflag in the profiles should help our
> international users and should not cause any problems. Are there any
> known bugs / problems this would trigger? Any reasons against that?

I've been hit by a bug in egroupware that's related to unicode. 
unicode-enabled mysql reserves string keys multiplied by 3, egroupware 
assumes (wrongly) that it won't cross the 1000 bytes key length boundry...

But that's really not a big deal.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-11 20:15 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
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 [this message]

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