b.n. wrote:
Hi,
When I first installed Gentoo I missed the +unicode use flag, that I
would have liked to have.
I didn't worry for a long time, but I have been annoyed enough a bit
here and there to consider adding it to my use flags.
I'd do it straight, but I remember this old thread:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=274175&highlight=ncurses+deathgrip
This was a thread about *removing* unicode, actually. However I fear
that messing with unicode could create serious problems. Expecially
since I woulnd't emerge --newuse everything at once, if possible: I'd
just be OK to have unicode when upgrading.
Any advice / real life experience?
Thanks,
m.
If your locale's alphabet does not end with z you might have to
1. declare LC_ALL="C" in make.conf to override systemwide locale or
2. use per-user locales leaving sysadmin and root locales to default.
A lot of configure scripts use awk,sed and the like in operations with
[a-zA-Z] not realizing that some alphabets are not a-z but rather a-y
for example. This can break stuff when portage gets used with an
alphabet like this.
The USE flag by itself haven't caused me any trouble, in the worst case
you only have to emerge --newuse whatever causes trouble.
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