On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 19:33 +0200, Sebastian Plotz wrote: > I just want to ask if it is still necessary to ship the Coreutils > Internationalization Fixes Patch with the book. > > It was rejected by the upstream maintainers and is possibly the reason > for problems (the book says this).44
It's been a while since we've had any problems knowingly caused by that patch, and it fixes several i18n related issues which I can imagine being quite important for none-English speaking users. Whilst we try not to use patches that have been rejected upstream, there's no other substitute at the moment. The upstream-preferred approach would be to use libunistring functionality to handle character-width and related issues, but so far no one has produced anything along those lines. I think it may be safe to remove the warning about the patch; it's well maintained by Fedora and we pretty much use it as-is. That way at least we don't unduly scare our readers. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
