From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22110 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Sep 2003 02:37:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6521 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2003 02:37:33 -0000 Message-ID: <3F5D3DE6.3000503@sil.org> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 10:41:42 +0800 From: Greg Aumann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-au, en-nz, en-gb, en-us, en, zh-cn MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo-UTF8 X-Archives-Salt: 4ed0be85-6f2f-461e-9676-97fbacea3d98 X-Archives-Hash: ba9e4e7adc961ebb26b3026a48b4e88b I am quite interested in converting my gentoo system to UTF-8. I haven't gone any further than using a UTF-8 locale yet. I am also writing an ebuild for the Openi18n input method framework http://www.openi18n.org/subgroups/im/IIIMF/ I am particularly interested in input methods, fonts and getting Chinese going under UTF-8. Greg > Hello, > I'm looking for some advice to make a Gentoo installation thats > completely UTF-8 compliant. This is a developer issue, as I'm also > looking for what regards will be required from our side to make UTF-8 > the default for applications and userspace tools, as well as how to make > it work nicely in the console. > > So far I think RedHat is the one distribution thats "ahead" in this > case, (I haven't had the chance to try SuSe) but they fail too (gtk+-1.2 > for example will make fun things happen when it hits öæøØÆÅÄÖåä ) > > So, a roadmap of sorts, perhaps documentation and a list of "broken > apps" in regards to this would be a nice start, and then providing > buildfixes and patches to make things work as supposed.... > > > yep, this goal is pretty big and will be a long time thing that should > probably be covered by USE="utf8" or other flag, but in this case I'm > looking for input from developers and users who have ideas on how to > make this happen and make it a smooth transition. > > > //Spider -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list