On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 17:05, Spider wrote:
> begin quote
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:24:52 +0900
> Mamoru KOMACHI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > So what I will do is:
> >
> > 1. Create global USE flag named "unicode" which enables
> > Unicode(including UTF-7/UTF-8/UTF-16 and so on) support.
> > 2. Don't make it default in any profiles. (We will consider it later
> > when those applications settle down.)
> >
> > Everybody happy with this? I hope it will be a good starting point for
> > integrating Unicoded support into Gentoo Linux.
> >
>
> Sounds great.
>
>
> proposed addition to baselayout:
>
> if [ `use unicode` ] ;
> then
> cat >> ${D}/etc/rc.conf << EOF
> # This setting enables a default UTF-8 locale for your system.
> # please look inside /usr/share/locale for more examples
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>
> EOF
> fi
>
> This is rough, but something like it perhaps?I do not see why. If you enable utf8 support, it does not mean you want it in console. The user should specify his LANG himself, as well as the fact that it should rather be: ELANG="en_US.UTF-8" and then get it to propagate only to the users, as there are still a lot of things breaking during build with LANG, et el set. Thanks, -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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