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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
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