Chris Staub([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:41:51AM -0500:
> Archaic wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:48:32PM -0500, Chris Staub wrote:
> >>Note: I am not saying I am absolutely against UTF-8 support being the
> >>default (haven't really decided yet). I'm just tired of hearing this
> >>"you don't *have* to use UTF-8 locales/all other locales still work
> >>fine" argument, mainly because nobody is denying that's true.
> >
> >No, they are stating that they haven't been paying attention and thereby
> >are scared that they are going to have to use utf8 instead of their
> >preferred locale. IOW, they are ignorant of the facts.
>
>
> I thought that the concern was that having UTF-8 support might take
> extra resources that are wasted and unnecessary if you never use it. I
> wasn't thinking that anybody here was actually ignorant enough to think
> that having support for UTF-8 forces you to use it.
> --
Chris.
About your concerns,it does't make a lot of a difference really.
Quite a lot of applications that I am running in daily basis,they are
using the Ncurses library,so I just finished a UTF-8 build,just for
this particular reason (to clear the fears).
The results from the UTF-8 build SVN-20060120.
#-------------------------------#
(~)ldd `which mutt`|grep ncurses
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7ee0000)
(~)ldd `which htop`|grep ncurses
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7f1f000)
(~)ldd `which alsamixer`|grep ncurses
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7f2c000)
21258 tms 17 0 3480 2008 1068 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.03 alsamixer
21260 tms 16 0 3896 2856 1248 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.05 mutt
21384 tms 16 0 2728 1804 900 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.06 htop
#-------------------------------#
And these are from the ALPHABETICAL-20051216.
(~)ldd `which mutt` |grep curses
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7ecd000)
(~)ldd `which htop` |grep ncurses
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7ef2000)
(~)ldd `which alsamixer`|grep ncurses
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7f4d000)
4604 tms 16 0 6164 2872 1404 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.24 mutt
4620 tms 16 0 2164 1164 864 S 0.0 0.2 0:02.99 htop
4696 tms 15 0 5212 1432 1096 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.02 alsamixer
#-------------------------------#
Both was taken with only the Sysklogd daemon running.
I know they can't prove much,but it's a sign.
Regards.
Ag.
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