Mark Knecht wrote:
On 5/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than
> the Gentoo description located here:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml
>
> unicode Adds support for Unicode
>
> I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-)
Or figured the reader would know how to use google... :-)
http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html
-Richard
That much I did before writing. There are lots of similar sites. Thanks.
However, being a musican and not a computer scientist all of that is
mostly gibberish to lower life forms such as myself. The unicode flag
possibility shows up on some new emerges for fonts. I suppose they are
then fonts that use 16-bits instead of whatever they use when I don't
include the unicaode flag. All that stated, then question still
arises, why would I want these on my system?
Do you speak languages other then English? If so, that is where Unicode
can come in. It can handle a lot more characters then just the English
alphabet.
I only speak and read English and have no need for those "funny"
characters so I built my systems with a global use flag of -unicode.
It won't hurt to include Unicode. Basically if you want to work with
any language other then English, just enable Unicode.
Thanks,
Mark
Jim
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