On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:58, 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
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:58:03 +0100
Patrick Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:24:26AM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
Well there are a few problems, but yes I cannot name them now.
Using Japanese, Cyrillic and English in a few encodings each is a big nightmare.
It's true! We in xUSSR use KOI8-R, KOI8-U, CP1251 ( aka Windows-1251),
CP866.
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:58, Patrick Lauer wrote:
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.
At the same time, you'll probably hear people bitching about UTF-8 being
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:47, Patrick Lauer wrote:
It is still optional, just enabled by default :-)
Would be enough to be criticized probably, mainly by english-speaking users
that doesn't care of extended characters.
Although, this would follow also the direction of both Apple and
* Patrick Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06/02/28 11:58 +0100]:
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?
It is enabled by default. At least on
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 13:50 +0100, Lars Weiler wrote:
* Patrick Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06/02/28 11:58 +0100]:
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
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 06:47, Patrick Lauer wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:32 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:58, Patrick Lauer wrote:
During that discussion we realized that having utf-8 not enabled by
default and no utf8 fonts available by
I can't say if there are any problems, as I didn't received
a bug for a long time. The only thing that's nasty: we
don't have any good utf8-fonts for the console.
I think that's acceptable.
The only issue related to that we really have is this bug, which is
annoying but not fatal:
Lars Weiler wrote:
* Patrick Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06/02/28 11:58 +0100]:
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?
It is enabled by
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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
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
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:47:33 -0500 solar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| 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?
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:47:33PM -0500, solar wrote:
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?
It's true
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:47:33 -0500
solar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
Well, stuff I could find includes:
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 20:18 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:47:33 -0500
solar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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Patrick Lauer skrev:
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 /
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