On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:09, Mamoru KOMACHI wrote: > > unicode, or utf-8 ? > > I personally vote for unicode, but if it is going to be enabled by > default (i.e. Gentoo support UTF-8 immediately after installation), > utf8 seems adequate rather than unicode. I just don't want to add > utf7, utf16, utf32 USE flags for each encoding but have unicode USE > flag which will support Unicode encodings (if any).
Exactly. "unicode" should denote adding support for UCS-* or UTF-* encodings and internal representations. > > There ought to be some magic to convert locales to utf-8 as well if > > this is enabled. > I'm thinking that it isn't time to make the USE flag default yet > (liquidx is working on getting UTF-8 down on Gentoo system). Anyhow, > creating unicode/utf8 USE flag and making it default are two different > matters and we can discuss them separately. From my point of view, "unicode" USE flag encompasses UTF-8 support. I think they are the essentially the same problem. Think of it this way, treating them as separate issues would be like treating iso2022-jp as a separate issue to Japanese support. Anyhow, the generation of UTF-8 locales can be accomplished by a patch to glibc which could be applied depending on the unicode USE flag. I've got one such patch around, I'll submit a bug to track it in bugzilla soon. Cheers, -- Alastair 'liquidx' Tse >> Gentoo Developer >> http://www.liquidx.net/ | http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/ >> GPG Key : http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/liquidx_gentoo_org.asc >> FingerPrint : 579A 9B0E 43E8 0E40 EE93 BB1C 38CE 1C7B 3907 14F6
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