From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419EC13800E for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:03:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68B33E0595; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E3AE0459 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:02:49 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgsKAG6Zu09FpaOq/2dsb2JhbABEsnYDgRiBCIIVAQEEATocKAsLNBIUJTeICQULuX6LCFqBRII8YgONPodcgRCET4g6gViDBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="194368794" Received: from 69-165-163-170.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.165.163.170]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 30 Jul 2012 15:02:48 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:02:22 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:02:22 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default Message-ID: <20120730190222.GA10223@waltdnes.org> References: <20498.15988.225230.614853@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <501285DC.2020207@gentoo.org> <201207271324.48571.vapier@gentoo.org> <1343413763.7511.1.camel@belkin4> <5012F712.7030806@gentoo.org> <50169BB8.4030408@orlitzky.com> <20120730164141.1573fadd@pomiocik.lan> <50169F35.60504@orlitzky.com> <20120730182824.0b679d8a@pomiocik.lan> <5016C57C.4050304@orlitzky.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5016C57C.4050304@orlitzky.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 8a6ee4a3-dae3-4230-bef7-9334bf469aed X-Archives-Hash: 2338c9fa503236d32dbcabda25544ca1 On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:33:48PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote > The technical objection to C.UTF-8 is that it's non-standard, Ok. > What are the technical objections to LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8? If the > alternatives are all improvements, the statistics are irrelevant. I ran into a problem several months ago with xfreecell not running. Turned out the ISO8859-1 fonts were not being generated, just UTF-8. xfreecell needs ISO8859-1 fonts. And it's not the only package. I modified xorg-2.eclass so that font packages would build ISO8859-1. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/252316/ for the gory details. Would forcing UTF-8 cause problems for packages that expect specific ISO encodings in X fonts? The important part of the eclass mod was to manually enable iso8859-1 and disable all other encodings... if grep -q -s "disable-all-encodings" ${ECONF_SOURCE:-.}/configure; then FONT_OPTIONS+=" --enable-iso8859-1 --disable-iso10646 --disable-iso10646-1 --disable-iso8859-2 --disable-iso8859-3 --disable-iso8859-4 --disable-iso8859-5 --disable-iso8859-6 --disable-iso8859-7 --disable-iso8859-8 --disable-iso8859-9 --disable-iso8859-10 --disable-iso8859-11 --disable-iso8859-12 --disable-iso8859-13 --disable-iso8859-14 --disable-iso8859-15 --disable-iso8859-16 --disable-jisx0201 --disable-koi8-r" else FONT_OPTIONS+=" --disable-iso10646 --disable-iso10646-1 --disable-iso8859-2 --disable-iso8859-3 --disable-iso8859-4 --disable-iso8859-5 --disable-iso8859-6 --disable-iso8859-7 --disable-iso8859-8 --disable-iso8859-9 --disable-iso8859-10 --disable-iso8859-11 --disable-iso8859-12 --disable-iso8859-13 --disable-iso8859-14 --disable-iso8859-15 --disable-iso8859-16 --disable-jisx0201 --disable-koi8-r" fi -- Walter Dnes