Hi. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on "06 Apr 2001 11:29:13 -0400", with "Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support", Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can I create shrink_string subdirectory in utilities/dbootstrap/ > > and put this utility as ja.c ? > > Sure. > > > If there aren't any objections, I'll commit the required modification > > into woody version. > > No objections at all. Thanks. I just commited them now, and pray nothing will break. > Edmundo had some revised patches, I assume you saw that. I'll check it. > > I had tried to create them before the potato release. But it was > > already frozen time for potato, and I couldn't rely on me that > > I did it correct on devel packages (libnewt-dev and slang1-dev), > > I have not uploaded them. > > Well, now's the time. I would say, just do it. If we get it in now, > we can lay some testing on it and correct problem prior to woody > release. I think tt may be easy to provide the forked package with utf-8 support for testing. Is this still OK ? maybe newt-uff8 and slang1-utf8 or newt-i18n and slang1-i18n. They would have conflict with the normal version. And if they are OK, then the normal package can merge the utf-8 support safely, and we won't need the separate pacakages then. > > I don't know how well tested the bogl-bterm is. Just wonder. > > Well, again, now is the time to get testing on it. Is this going to > be packed separately as well? Wouldn't it also be needed for Debian > Installer? I think bogl-bterm has been included in unstable/sid. Package: bogl-bterm Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 52 Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: bogl Version: 0.1.4-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2) Filename: pool/main/b/bogl/bogl-bterm_0.1.4-1_i386.deb Size: 16892 MD5sum: 3f5f3a4bb7f13ce7e2e128ea22b9399f Description: Ben's Own Graphics Library - graphical terminal Ben's Own Graphics Library is a small framebuffer library, including basic widgets, support for text in multiple languages, and mouse handling. . This package contains bterm, a utf-enabled framebuffer terminal. > > And I think the current packages including base-config has > > messages for Japanese in euc-jp, not in utf-8, so we need > > some work if we use utf-8 to show the messages with bogl-bterm. > > Will iconv convert them? Maybe. We need to check it. > > Well, so there may be softwares which can not handle the config files > > written in utf-8 encoding. If we use utf-8 as main encoding in Debian, > > we need to work on them. > > I'd rather not force that, esp. for users who just need the ASCII > set. Can't we get it to write out the config files (such as > /etc/hosts, /etc/network/interfaces, etc) in ASCII? OK. I won't object it. -- Taketoshi Sano: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
