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 1FIAUS-0001db-3F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:15:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2BKDpM3019942; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:13:51 GMT Received: from stoneshaft.ath.cx (212.199.9.99.static.012.net.il [212.199.9.99]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2BKB47O010713 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:11:05 GMT Received: from [10.10.10.100] (unknown [10.10.10.100]) by stoneshaft.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354BC1BF0C3 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:10:53 +0200 (IST) From: Eldad Zack To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default? Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:29:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <1141124283.7962.74.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1141124283.7962.74.camel@localhost> 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="nextPart3155659.BYVpOmLY71"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603112229.20742.eldad@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f9e002f5-264d-4925-aedb-1e5de7d81570 X-Archives-Hash: f0b75c8c9b64dfd0e536a37907d1e682 --nextPart3155659.BYVpOmLY71 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1255" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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.=20 unicode-enabled mysql reserves string keys multiplied by 3, egroupware=20 assumes (wrongly) that it won't cross the 1000 bytes key length boundry... But that's really not a big deal. =2D-=20 Eldad Zack Key/Fingerprint at pgp.mit.edu, ID 0x96EA0A93 --nextPart3155659.BYVpOmLY71 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEEzMgT+MN7JbqCpMRAoVuAJ9ZC2Mg4QkOxI7Q304dDo2FVvt1XgCfeaw7 DDj6TuhQfyANORrEYeAEoKk= =ggJh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3155659.BYVpOmLY71-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list