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 1FEEhr-0007JD-Vv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:56:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SNsaVR015524; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:54:36 GMT Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk (pasmtp.tele.dk [193.162.159.95]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1SNoRkk028436 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:50:27 GMT Received: from [192.168.3.32] (gurlinet.dk [80.62.52.173]) by pasmtp.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9EA1EC31C for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:51:01 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4404E1E4.8010503@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:51:00 +0100 From: Bjarke Istrup Pedersen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) 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: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: id=98BDACB1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 635fe6ad-b190-4b72-a4d7-fb6a6f4398bf X-Archives-Hash: 29b052fac25caeed3cb0c10375e91bd8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Lauer skrev: > 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 I think it would be nice to have it enabled too :-) You got my vote. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEBOHkO+Ewtpi9rLERAralAJoD2y5E9U6rVKV5WMKyjg/3u6baOACeKXba dOAfrKDeV4ci9W9ykNwtKCQ= =4Qkm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list