On 12/30/20 12:46 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Hi all, > > since utf8 encoding is everywhere by now, and since switching the useflag > unicode off without taking precautions is a way to hose your installation, I > would propose to medium-term get rid of this flag. > > Suggestion: > > 1) use.force unicode now/soon in the default profiles > > 2) step by step, modify ebuilds to enable the functionality unconditionally > (and if necessary fix depstrings) > > 3) at some point the flag is gone > > Opinions? > > Cheers, > Andreas >
Yes, this sounds nice. What about packages which rely on/give unicode support outside of this flag? Like the global icu flag, which supposedly needs dev-libs/icu ? Cheers, Aisha
