On Fri, Jun 23, 2006, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from "Adam M. Costello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:37:59 +0000 > From: "Adam M. Costello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jezz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add multibyte support > > Jezz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I hope this patch could be added to "par" debian package. > > If it works and has no effect on the observable behavior for ASCII > input, then I have no objection, just a reminder: You need to change > the version numbers in the code and documentation (preferably to > something containing at least one letter), and add an entry to the > releasenotes file. > > As for incorporating the patch upstream, I think I first want to fix a > minor problem with 8-bit support. (Par 1.51 and earlier was written for > 7-bit ASCII. Par 1.52 claimed to add support for 8-bit charsets, but > didn't get it completely right.) Also, when I add multibyte support, I > might want to add awareness of double-width characters at the same time > (here I mean the width on the display, not in memory). > > AMC > > ----- End forwarded message -----
Hi, and first thanks for your work on par! Please could upload a patched version of par in experimental, even if upstream has not integrated the patch yet? That would be better to report bugs against it than external packages. Thanks for considering, -- adn Mohammed Adnène Trojette
