-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ooh, I'm very much in favor of unicode being enabled by default. It's not like users would be limited *only* to UTF-8 on their new installs, anyway. I'd love to see this implemented.
++ for the suggestion. :) Patrick Lauer wrote: > Hi all, > > at FOSDEM we had a nice discussion about languages, translations etc. > Having people from the US (wolf31o2) who never have problems and people > from Japan (usata) who always have problems with encodings / > charsets / ... was quite interesting. > > During that discussion we realized that having utf-8 not enabled by > default and no utf8 fonts available by default causes lots of > recompilation and reconfiguration. > > Enabling the unicode useflag in the profiles should help our > international users and should not cause any problems. Are there any > known bugs / problems this would trigger? Any reasons against that? > > If there are no objections this should be a small but helpful change. > > On a tangent I wonder if pulling in extra fonts as a dependency of X > makes sense (useflag controlled, enabled by default) - that way the > unicode capabilities are available without any configuration. > > Patrick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEBH+YrsJQqN81j74RAr1+AJ44WIZB6nSljue+RC//KWAvAFyFUwCdG5cB khBaPU69f8gAhn1MFN+grLs= =0DAj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
