On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:50:17PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > > >Lack of UTF-8 support never bothered me, precisely because earlier versions > >of Zile didn't complain if a character wasn't printable. So, even if I > >couldn't read UTF-8 with Zile, I could type it. I think it's a very bad > >idea > >to disallow typing non-printable characters _before_ UTF-8 support has been > >implemented. It breaks a valid use case! > > No, it doesn't: the case was already broken, as I explained. > > >I hope you reconsider. I find Zile a very good editor, and it'd be a pity > >I > >had to avoid it whenever I have to write in my native language (Catalan). > > Since Zile doesn't display the characters you want except in 8-bit locales, > I'm puzzled as to why you'd want to edit Catalan in a UTF-8 locale with > Zile. I have occasion to write in French, German &c. and don't use Zile for > this for precisely this reason; if I did use Zile it would be in an > ISO-8859-1 locale.
It worked fine for me; I would have preferred display capability, but that wasn't important to me. Now it doesn't work at all, which is a regression, and means I can't continue to use Zile as the editor for my MUA. I think Zile is less valuable because of this. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
