On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:58 +0100, 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.
I forget where I read it but I thought that unicode lead to overflows and was considered a general security risk. I wish I knew where I read that but I'm unable to find it. Any list readers know anything relating to that? -- solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
