On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:33:48PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote > The technical objection to C.UTF-8 is that it's non-standard, Ok. > What are the technical objections to LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8? If the > alternatives are all improvements, the statistics are irrelevant.
I ran into a problem several months ago with xfreecell not running. Turned out the ISO8859-1 fonts were not being generated, just UTF-8. xfreecell needs ISO8859-1 fonts. And it's not the only package. I modified xorg-2.eclass so that font packages would build ISO8859-1. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/252316/ for the gory details. Would forcing UTF-8 cause problems for packages that expect specific ISO encodings in X fonts? The important part of the eclass mod was to manually enable iso8859-1 and disable all other encodings... if grep -q -s "disable-all-encodings" ${ECONF_SOURCE:-.}/configure; then FONT_OPTIONS+=" --enable-iso8859-1 --disable-iso10646 --disable-iso10646-1 --disable-iso8859-2 --disable-iso8859-3 --disable-iso8859-4 --disable-iso8859-5 --disable-iso8859-6 --disable-iso8859-7 --disable-iso8859-8 --disable-iso8859-9 --disable-iso8859-10 --disable-iso8859-11 --disable-iso8859-12 --disable-iso8859-13 --disable-iso8859-14 --disable-iso8859-15 --disable-iso8859-16 --disable-jisx0201 --disable-koi8-r" else FONT_OPTIONS+=" --disable-iso10646 --disable-iso10646-1 --disable-iso8859-2 --disable-iso8859-3 --disable-iso8859-4 --disable-iso8859-5 --disable-iso8859-6 --disable-iso8859-7 --disable-iso8859-8 --disable-iso8859-9 --disable-iso8859-10 --disable-iso8859-11 --disable-iso8859-12 --disable-iso8859-13 --disable-iso8859-14 --disable-iso8859-15 --disable-iso8859-16 --disable-jisx0201 --disable-koi8-r" fi -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
