Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-30 Thread Wols Lists
On 30/12/20 01:04, Grant Edwards wrote: > You must be talking about some sort of weird "wide" encoding (is there > such a thing as UTF-16?). I've never seen a file like that. Everybody > and everything uses UTF-8 these days and has for years. UTF-8 is a > superset of ASCII, and doesn't increase si

[gentoo-user] Re: ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-12-29, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 05:11:36PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote >> Hi Walter, >> >> > "-pch -roaming -sendmail -spell -tcpd -udev -udisks -unicode -upower >> > -xinerama" >> >> mostly out of curiosity, why do you want to disable unicode support >> here? >>

[gentoo-user] Re: ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-12-29, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Hi Walter, > >> "-pch -roaming -sendmail -spell -tcpd -udev -udisks -unicode -upower >> -xinerama" > > mostly out of curiosity, why do you want to disable unicode support here? > > This feels odd to me since utf8 has effectively become the standard encod