Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 13 May 2006 18:59, Mark Knecht wrote: What is unicode and why might an end user want it or need it? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml -- Bo Andresen pgpDwUrn2UPqp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Max Lorenz
Hi, On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Jim
Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
060513 Mark Knecht wrote: being a musican and not a computer scientist, I suppose they are fonts that use 16-bits instead of whatever they use when I don't include the unicode flag. the question still arises, why would I want these on my system? If you confine yourself entirely to English,

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/13/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: