Martin Ereth wrote:
9) I missed a clear statement whether I should use UTF-8 or not. I did set
LC_ALL and
LANG to de_DE.UTF-8 and my system works fine. There are no wrongly displayed
characters.
The issue doesn't always look as wrongly displayed characters. See
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/introduction/locale-issues.html
and the ongoing rewrite attempt at
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/NewLocaleRelatedIssues (to be
merged later with the existing page).
In short, GNU/Linux is not ready to UTF-8 (as in: there are unfixable
applications), but, much worse, some other braindamaged GNOME
applications now assume that they run on RedHat-ish UTF-8 based system.
And UTF-8 is mainstream in distributions, despite the fact that it is
not ready.
So: if you want to use "latetst and greatest, but more than a bit raw",
or have to stay compatible with UTF-8 based distros (e.g., share files
via NFS or SCP with them), use UTF-8. However, note that distros usually
fix more bugs than BLFS.
If you want stable and 99.99% working (all known out-of-the-book
exceptions are related to GNOME and only Nautilus CD Burner is broken in
the book), but kinda "obsolete" system setup, use just [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also, the following rule applies: if you depend on at least one broken
application (most frequent showstopper: Midnight Commander), you are
back at the drawing board.
Note that my viewpoint may be biased, because I am from Russia.
Mostly-ASCII German text is probably understandable even if all
non-ASCII characters are damaged (i.e., a "slightly wrong" result is
obtained). However, this is not the case for Russian: any damage leads
to completely wrong result there, and there is no "slightly wrong" case.
10) in chapter 6.18 (ncurses) is a note: "The instructions above don't create
non-wide-character Ncurses libraries since no package installed by compiling
from
sources would link against them at runtime. If you must have such libraries
because of some binary-only application, build them with the following
commands:"
Do I need the libs? or blfs? For what use are non-wide-character libs? Do they
hurt my
system, if I install them?
They can't hurt. But in LFS, they can be used only by third-party
binary-only (e.g., distributed only in RPMs) applications, and you are
not likely to install them.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
--
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/
Unsubscribe: See the above information page
