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* Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?
  @ 2006-02-28 14:27 99%     ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2006-02-28 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 06:47, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:32 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:58, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > At the same time, you'll probably hear people bitching about UTF-8 being
> > enabled because "it's not needed for me, should be the rest of the world
> > to change"....
>
> It is still optional, just enabled by default :-)
> All the people with non-ASCII charsets will have less work, only that we
> switch the load from, say, 75% of the users fixing their environment to
> 25% of users having to switch.

hopefully people will fix their packages to respect USE=unicode as to whether 
they link against libncurses or libncursesw
-mike

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