Re: UTF-8 in jessie

Le Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:12:24AM +0200, Christian PERRIER a écrit : > Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > > > About display by GUIs, I think that we should have a system to install all > > the > > fonts necessary to display languages that we support at the installation. > > > Such a

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > About display by GUIs, I think that we should have a system to install all the > fonts necessary to display languages that we support at the installation. Such as tasksel and its language tasks? :-) In short, we already have that. However, we need p

Re: UTF-8 in jessie (debhelper and BOM)

Hi, UTF-8 is a good goal indeed as principle. (I agree but I am struggling to update package documentation since Japanese are known to be tough (JIS 2022/EUCJP/SHIFT-JIS/... are used) EUC/SHIFT-JIS mixed case can be confused with LATIN-1 easily. ) But I do not understand goal #5. Why "MUST"?

Bug#719556: ITP: logcat-color -- a colorful alternative to "adb logcat"

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luke Faraone * Package name: logcat-color Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Marshall Culpepper * URL : https://github.com/marshall/logcat-color * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : a colorf

Re: Switching default dpkg-source compressor for V2+ formats to xz

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:52:51AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to switch the default dpkg-source compressor to xz for V2+ > (not for V1) source formats, as suggested by Ansgar Burchardt in [0]. > > [0] > > After ha

Switching default dpkg-source compressor for V2+ formats to xz

Hi! I'd like to switch the default dpkg-source compressor to xz for V2+ (not for V1) source formats, as suggested by Ansgar Burchardt in [0]. [0] After having switched the default dpkg-deb compressor to xz in 1.17.0, it only makes se

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

Le Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:55:03PM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:58:30AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > > For the record, there is a Lintian tag for this now[1], which suggests > > only a handful of packages violates this. > > > > > - Recommend ASCII when possible. >

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On 2013-08-12 20:14:30 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > What about locales though? > > * C.utf8 locale should be always available > * C.utf8 locale should be the default/fallback locale > * utf8 locale variants should be default / available / preferred > (where appropriate) If scripts intend to u

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On 2013-08-12 17:58:20 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > 5. All programs consuning UTF8 Text must understand a BOM. > > I'm afraid I don't agree here: BOMs are nasty stuff that serve no purpose > once you standardize on UTF8. They mi

Bug#719526: ITP: attic -- deduplicating backup program

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Clint Adams * Package name: attic Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Jonas Borgström * URL : https://pythonhosted.org/Attic/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : deduplicating backup progr

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On 12 August 2013 01:51, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:49:57PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > I propose the following sub-goals: > > 1. all programs should, in their default configuration, accept UTF-8 input >and pass it through uncorrupted. Having to manually specify en

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On 2013-08-12 15:16:59 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:50:35PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2013-08-12 02:51:52 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > Detecting non-UTF files is easy: > > > * false positives are impossible > > > * false negatives are extremely unlikely:

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > 5. All programs consuning UTF8 Text must understand a BOM. I'm afraid I don't agree here: BOMs are nasty stuff that serve no purpose once you standardize on UTF8. They might help with exchange with a minority of Windows programs, a

Re: Bug#719323: ITP: jackson-core -- fast and powerful JSON library for Java

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > I am not sure if it makes sense to adapt this naming scheme for source > packages and I would personally very much prefer to use the name used by > upstream. There are also quite a number of packages maintained by pkg-java > that simply us

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

Florian Lohoff zz.de> writes: > 5. All programs consuning UTF8 Text must understand a BOM. The kernel doesn’t, start there: tglase@tglase:~$ mksh -c 'print '\''\ufeff#!/bin/sh\necho foo'\' >x; chmod +x x; ./x ./x: line 1: #!/bin/sh: No such file or directory foo That’s running GNU bash, with

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > I propose the following sub-goals: > > 1. all programs should, in their default configuration, accept UTF-8 input >and pass it through uncorrupted. Having to manually specify encoding >is acceptable only in a programmatic in

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:58:30AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > For the record, there is a Lintian tag for this now[1], which suggests > only a handful of packages violates this. > > > - Recommend ASCII when possible. > > - Require ASCII for files in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and > > /u

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:50:35PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-08-12 02:51:52 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Detecting non-UTF files is easy: > > * false positives are impossible > > * false negatives are extremely unlikely: combinations of letters that would > > happen to match a va

Bug#719491: ITP: morris -- Nine men's morris game for the gnome desktop

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz * Package name: morris Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Dirk Farin * URL : http://nine-mens-morris.net/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Nine men's morris game for the gnome deskt

ITP: erfa -- Image visualization and access to catalogs and data for astronomy

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher C-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-scie...@lists.debian.org * Package name: erfa Version : None released yet Upstream Author : IAU SOFA Board * URL : https://github.com/liberfa/erfa * License

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On 2013-08-12 02:51:52 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Detecting non-UTF files is easy: > * false positives are impossible > * false negatives are extremely unlikely: combinations of letters that would > happen to match a valid utf character don't happen naturally, and even if > they did, every s

Bug#719480: ITP: libmodule-path-perl -- module to get the full path to a locally installed Perl module

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libmodule-path-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Neil Bowers * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Path/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On 2013-08-12 04:18, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : >> >> I would like to propose full UTF-8 support. I don't mean here full >> support for all of Unicode's finer points, merely complete eradication of >> mojibake. > > Hi Adam, > Hi, >

Re: Bug#719211: ITP: lnav -- nurses-based log file viewer

Hi Chris On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:42:13PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:44:11AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso > > > > * Package name: lnav > > Version : 0.5.0 > > Upstream