Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Re: [Devil-linux-commit] build/scripts/config config_linux,1.66,1.67

[Diego T. <dt...@co...>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:36:33AM -0500, hzu...@ra... wrote:

> >CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-15"
> >CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
> >CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m
> >CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
> >CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y
> >CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=m

> >that is, everything as modules, and only 8859-15 inside the kernel.
> >heiko, if everything is ok for you, say something :)
> 
> I thought UTF-8 is the new standard?

yes, but after a lot of testing & reading i've changed my mind. with utf-8
you have multibyte characters representation (>127), and for example 
midnightcommander is not ready. redhat has done a lot of work on 
improving that, and they have patched versions of mc, mutt, etc, but
i don't like using them on dl. so lets clean things on 8859-15 (that
supports everyone using devil-linux) and leave utf-8 for dl2.0 :)

also samba provides "unix charset" so the utf-8 default can be changed.

This are the best documents i've found about utf-8 and 8859-15 support.
http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/howto.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/ch-configure.en.html

> 
> >more things: our glibc is updated?
> 
> No, why?

utf-8 needs the latests glibc available, i mean, latests glibc is needed
to use utf-8 :)

> >CONFIG_CODA_FS=m
> >
> >i'll start doing some tests. the beauty of coda is that near everything
> >is in userspace.
> 
> That change you can do.

but i don't promise anything, since there is no beer :)

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