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 1FE7uS-0006F6-2V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:41:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SGY38c003214; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:34:03 GMT Received: from mail.tar.bz (s175249.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp [220.157.175.249]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1SGO0Z3018701 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:24:01 GMT Received: (qmail 25025 invoked by uid 210); 28 Feb 2006 16:24:56 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.122 by dorf (envelope-from , uid 89) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.87/1096. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.122):. Processed in 0.028186 secs); 28 Feb 2006 16:24:56 -0000 Received: from kpc.tar.bz (HELO ?192.168.1.122?) (kalin.smtp%tar.bz@192.168.1.122) by dorf.tar.bz with ESMTPA; 28 Feb 2006 16:24:56 -0000 Message-ID: <4404793A.6060701@thinrope.net> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:24:26 +0900 From: Kalin KOZHUHAROV User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060209) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default? References: <1141124283.7962.74.camel@localhost> <20060228125046.GX10994@elladan.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> In-Reply-To: <20060228125046.GX10994@elladan.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: id=26BE7385 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 82fa55a5-177f-4041-b90a-0c8585bfd333 X-Archives-Hash: cb0ac7c5a9036ca0ce3c8b866a1e7044 Lars Weiler wrote: > * Patrick Lauer [06/02/28 11:58 +0100]: >> 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? > > It is enabled by default. At least on ppc. And that since, > uhm, summer 2004? > > I can't say if there are any problems, as I didn't received > a bug for a long time. Well there are a few problems, but yes I cannot name them now. Using Japanese, Cyrillic and English in a few encodings each is a big nightmare. Nowadays I try to move everything to UTF-8, but there are those windoze users and webdevs that make all Japanese in Shift_JIS ... So support of wide range of encodings is a must, but UTF-8 is the truth. > The only thing that's nasty: we don't have any good utf8-fonts for the console. And not only the console. Even for xterm there are not many good fonts (known to me) that display both Japanese and Cyrillic in regular and bold. Currently there is only on combination that works for me. So fonts, font config and related stuff is what has to be fixed first. Kalin. P.S. And before fixed, it has to be filed... Promise to take notes (again) when I see something. -- |[ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ]| +-> http://ThinRope.net/ <-+ |[ ______________________ ]| -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list