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 1FE8CY-0006ca-Tx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:59:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SGv4d1006688; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:57:04 GMT Received: from pproxy.gmail.com (pproxy.gmail.com [64.233.166.177]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1SGokNA009345 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:50:47 GMT Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x31so915765pye for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:51:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:sender; b=FVVbAk+fJ1PNFfJqAgz/ahYoFYSzaldW6svaQ7EnVFeqdu+kXWt14f9K6U8moTCr6uBS1VLeeeRR9rLX2I0V5Svqdy++YIvKUJ6Q6DielRYWzdZw4+ogxxFGgdSE08awMOB3UAbJawS8AyMuZVPDIInn0Fc1y8hRZ8rC70xhbes= Received: by 10.35.101.9 with SMTP id d9mr872176pym; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:51:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.183? ( [68.111.234.228]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id x47sm869120pyc.2006.02.28.08.51.42; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:51:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <44047F99.8090905@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:51:37 -0800 From: Josh User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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> In-Reply-To: <1141124283.7962.74.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: Jack Dark X-Archives-Salt: 9178c549-0e8f-4fa4-9553-f25011ed1e4b X-Archives-Hash: 34d87578e24daec1348c88861fb5db9d -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ooh, I'm very much in favor of unicode being enabled by default. It's not like users would be limited *only* to UTF-8 on their new installs, anyway. I'd love to see this implemented. ++ for the suggestion. :) 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? > > If there are no objections this should be a small but helpful change. > > On a tangent I wonder if pulling in extra fonts as a dependency of X > makes sense (useflag controlled, enabled by default) - that way the > unicode capabilities are available without any configuration. > > Patrick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEBH+YrsJQqN81j74RAr1+AJ44WIZB6nSljue+RC//KWAvAFyFUwCdG5cB khBaPU69f8gAhn1MFN+grLs= =0DAj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list