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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:17:19 -0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rsg6cv$17q4$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9095281.eNJFYEL58v@noumea

On 2020-12-29, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi Walter, 
>
>> "-pch -roaming -sendmail -spell -tcpd -udev -udisks -unicode -upower
>> -xinerama"
>
> mostly out of curiosity, why do you want to disable unicode support here?
>
> This feels odd to me since utf8 has effectively become the standard encoding 
> over the past years.

I switched to a "unicode enabled" install many years ago, and I'm
about as much the "cranky old Unix guy" as you can get: I think that
mutt in an xterm qualifies as "GUI email client".

--
Grant






  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-29 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-28 21:36 [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install Walter Dnes
2020-12-28 21:48 ` Arve Barsnes
2020-12-28 21:55 ` Dale
2020-12-28 22:52 ` tastytea
2020-12-29  2:54   ` Walter Dnes
2021-01-19  2:21     ` Walter Dnes
2021-01-19 13:15       ` Andreas K. Hüttel
2020-12-29 15:11 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2020-12-29 21:17   ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2020-12-29 23:01   ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-30  1:04     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-30  9:23       ` Wols Lists
2020-12-30 16:35     ` [gentoo-user] " Andreas K. Huettel
2020-12-30 17:42       ` antlists
2020-12-30 17:30     ` Andreas K. Huettel
2020-12-30 18:01       ` antlists
2020-12-30 18:14         ` Andreas K. Huettel

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