On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:11:46PM +0100, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > Is Debian aims to be unicode compatible system?
Not officially, although I think that this is a worthwhile goal and there are various efforts that try to bring Debian a little bit closer to ubiquitous Unicode support. > If yes, then should I mail a bug report against packages which are not > able to handle unicode? > > If yes, should it be "Minor", "Normal" or "Important"? wishlist > For example, grep is not able to search unicode strings. Is it not? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat foo This is a test with Umlauts: äöü [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep ä foo with Umlauts: äöü [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ - Sebastian
