On 12/30/20 1:34 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2020, 19:53:25 EET schrieb Aisha Tammy:
>>
>> Yes, this sounds nice.
>> What about packages which rely on/give unicode support outside of this flag?
>> Like the global icu flag, which supposedly needs dev-libs/icu ?
>>
>
>
there are not too many packages to look at:
:; git grep -P IUSE.+unicode.*\"|awk -F/ '{print $1 "/" $2}'|sort -u|wc -l
82
so it should ot take too uch effort.
and it definitely would be worth it!
-JimC
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On 12/30/20 12:46 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since utf8 encoding is everywhere by now, and since switching the useflag
> unicode off without taking precautions is a way to hose your installation, I
> would propose to medium-term get rid of this flag.
>
> Suggestion:
>
> 1) us
Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2020, 19:53:25 EET schrieb Aisha Tammy:
>
> Yes, this sounds nice.
> What about packages which rely on/give unicode support outside of this flag?
> Like the global icu flag, which supposedly needs dev-libs/icu ?
>
Hmmm... good point. I thought too simple.
1) We want to
