On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 11:54:17PM +0000, akhiezer wrote: > > Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 21:56:30 +0000 > > From: Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> > > To: BLFS Development List <blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org> > > Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] Policy on locale for building ? (ticket #4745) > > > . > . > > > > > > > > Root (at least) here is always still non-utf8 . > > > > > > > The book (at least in most cases) builds as a normal user. You and > > I can choose to build as root if we wish, but we get to keep both > > pieces if it breaks. ;-) > > > > > - sorry, I thought from yr orig remark (not quot above) that you meant, > that everyone should by now have/use utf8 in everyday use (& not just for > b/lfs builds): hence my remark (intending to say) that we avoid utf8 &c > for root/priv in everyday use. > > (And normally only use root in software builds at the required steps). >
I did mean that :) Unfortunately, not everyone seems to want to be able to render every language [ and, in a tty, you are limited to at most 512 glyphs so in practice you can only hope to render all languages in a graphical term ]. My apologies. I still have the fanaticism of the convert. Goes back to when I wanted to put correct placenames on my holiday photos. I guess the ruby devs now assume that everyone using a current version of ruby is using unicode, and on linux the only common Unicode Translation Format is UTF-8. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
