On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:34:39 +0000 Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > > The problem is that I no longer want UTF-8 in trunk. > > Well, I do. I consider it a bug that we can't cater for folk wanting > to use UTF-8 locales without breaking groff, man, grep, etc. UTF-8 > support is a lot better now than it has been. It may not be perfect, > but with time an upstream cooperation it will get there. I strongly support this view point. It is not politically correct to have a book that builds a good system for Asciists, but fails to support Chinese, Japanese and Hindi properly (I deliberately leave Russian from the list). Even though there are drawbacks in the current system, it is a whole heap better than we had before. If Alexander will not help us develop it, we must recruit some editors with the requisite skills, not drop it. "To undertake a project, as the world's derivation indicates, means to cast an idea out ahead of oneself so that it gains autonomy and is fulfilled not only by the efforts of its originator but, indeed, independently of him as well" - Visions of San Francisco Bay, Czeslaw Milosz 1982. "A word is dead when it is said, some say, I say it begins to live that day" - Emily Dickinson Sorry Alexander, the deed is done. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
