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> > > 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. I agree here, just wanted to get a statement out that it should encompass both, since theres a few interesting aspects of UTF8 locales and filenames. (Namely, gtk 1.2 doesn't like utf8 filenames , which makes me want to deprecate it. I've been looking for a solution and for all that I can see no -easy- one was avaiable. ) > > > > 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. > <cut> > 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. Yeah, I haven't spoken for making it Default, even if I could go radical and demand it default and that we remove all legacy software that doesn't cut it.... *G* (No, I don't intend to ;) However, as for the locale genereation patch, that would be very welcome, and i think that alone would make a "unicode" useflag valid. I'm all for this. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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