Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag
On 5/13/06, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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? No, I barely speak English actually If so, that is where Unicode can come in. It can handle a lot more characters then just the English alphabet. OK, so I thought that was what I was accomplishing that with the cjk flag and by adding UTF8 to my kernel .config file. There is one place I have required this support in the past. I have digitized my complete CD collection and found that a number of CDs had special accents on (mostly) French and German names. However it seemed that adding the stuff I speak of was enough. POssibly it was just enough to get by? 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. I guess I'll look more deeply into it. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag
060513 Mark Knecht wrote: > being a musican and not a computer scientist, > I suppose they are fonts that use 16-bits > instead of whatever they use when I don't include the unicode flag. > the question still arises, why would I want these on my system? If you confine yourself entirely to English, French, German & Spanish, you shouldn't need Unicode; if you extend to Russian, Welsh or Esperanto, you will find it useful when switching between those languages & English. That's "briefly", as you are requesting (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag
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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag
Hi, 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. ;-) What is unicode and why might an end user want it or need it? This guide explains it pretty good: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml Thanks, Mark HTH, Max -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag
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? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag
On Saturday 13 May 2006 18:59, Mark Knecht wrote: >What is unicode and why might an end user want it or need it? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml -- Bo Andresen pgpDwUrn2UPqp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag
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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag
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. ;-) What is unicode and why might an end user want it or need it? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
