From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S34in-0003hx-Cv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:02:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0688FE0860 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rrzmta1.uni-regensburg.de (rrzmta1.uni-regensburg.de [194.94.155.51]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A38DE084B for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:39:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rrzmta1.uni-regensburg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id D8A604E46 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:39:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from grenadine.localnet (pc59050.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.102.87]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: hua59129) by rrzmta1.uni-regensburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CEB224E45 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:39:05 +0100 (CET) From: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2012-03-13 Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:38:38 +0100 Message-ID: <1977285.9zpGEy36EV@grenadine> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.0 (Linux/3.2.1-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.8.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120301080036.GC756@gentoo.org> References: <20120228211133.GO27655@gentoo.org> <20120301080036.GC756@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1446497.PLz5E9v8iW"; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Archives-Salt: 66917824-f822-402a-8cf4-5642552a5f28 X-Archives-Hash: 18d40b4de435f4dfee85927f0ad1add2 --nextPart1446497.PLz5E9v8iW Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > I think that discussion can be split into > 1) if a UTF-8 profile should be set as default, and > 2) what UTF-8 profile that would be > Just to give some hints/ideas here: > For 1), for many people it's a waste, and I'd like to debate that- even if you are a plain en_USamerican, you are bound to receive some text files eventually using a bit more characters. Maybe even in the filenames... > it's not POSIX (== C IIRC), so > should we really do that. Well new standards are made to replace or enhance old ones. > Also, how about this changing default for > existing systems. That's not an issue if we just change the preset in install stages. > Then, 2) is almost moot. If you would default to an UTF-8 profile, I > think the only sensical option is en_US.UTF-8 (not en_GB). Right. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing --nextPart1446497.PLz5E9v8iW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABCgAGBQJPT0OkAAoJEEb+UGWnxTyHeUwP/i9uXwpc7SJb2Xm0yQuiq2nu BXFEuhutiUlYS82KYH22dbZpG0mRmxeTF0d9k2dnuURUuwsXyCWcOMo7A4dq+6Am JDnbcazsstQNVxvwTY5/B5P4M5v/rtPXG+UEGQEqx4SRxWm9AB13M9BpGgWjvI1A 0t73j6MSv7aISIwUFDDNihS1RQ5r2h+WifnF4MeGsSzXngy1pr47rBofxRNOVM56 ZAWtT5gTOc1UzctjPmgZeCJjTl1FMLhZvtn69QDpAG654xPFjnFOEYu9I4wdJN8v +whzHy2bPQdv9a9/m1uY7+3XLHyVNVSxhukrOSdXRdsi5hGL2bV0AdTKIrybV3hP 4ZYoKiM5H4QGhX5lSQk1Q5Ki3bol3+nsHPvcpkKLBZLwEzX5N2Ndp4HcgnBSePO8 X/0/eK7eCh906nz0pLJLVrMdoPAUSqquHCvPmLHMuWeuEtgycDZ5QFmKWB5P8+83 wsbfViFmW1Z96b4IhtLNmf9ziK2K4wpRbguVm5WVeHxoo+Z8qTq9nUvNYRAqWA34 oma712CVC/1Bi0eFXCj0PGckaVbb8MCdNlpptZhkDuDGsyn4WE/kVGXDbhV8lDKg Jf6GD3fqy3RKnuDNEFhyQa+Tn7r6nMGN7fk5uptqoM27GdlgT0Dyjfz0zFYuQkKQ o43yamWuw3yESM/lyQS0 =BLZo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1446497.PLz5E9v8iW--