[FreeBSD port]: devel/glib20

[Stanislav Sedov]

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:34:12 +0200
"Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko at gmail.com> mentioned:

> 
> No.  It just collection of files that included by the '.' (dot)
> command of shell into .profile execution chain.  Something like
> 
>     $ echo 'G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=yes' > /usr/local/etc/profile.d/glib20.sh
>     $ chmod +x /usr/local/etc/profile.d/glib20.sh
> 
> But I personally would to prefer UTF-8 filenames even when under
> koi8-u locale, because it gives highly better interoperability between
> desktops (GOME/KDE/XFCE) and users (some uses German at all just for
> don't forget this language).

This will work only with "sh".

> 
> My personal vote: leave Glib as it is.  Everything what you want may
> be ahieved just by tuning environment variables.
> 

My point is that system should be consistent. Imagine you had to tune each
application with its specific environment variables. Encoding could be extracted
from LANG. Every other application uses it. I can't see why gnome apps can not.

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Stanislav Sedov
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