On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:43:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:27:43PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Why are you CC'ing me? Are you interested in having a discussion of
> > these issues, or just in provoking me by filling my inbox?
>
> I Cc'd you because you didn't
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:27:43PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Why are you CC'ing me? Are you interested in having a discussion of
> these issues, or just in provoking me by filling my inbox?
I Cc'd you because you didn't have a Mail-Followup-To: header
indicating otherwise.
Probably not the
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:39:25PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> You're telling me why the context matters. You're not telling me why
> the unicode naming of the code points matters.
Why are you CC'ing me? Are you interested in having a discussion of these
issues, or just in provoking me by fillin
> > > > Also, Unicode does include Fraktur characters.
> > >
> > > but in mathematical symbols - that is a completely different beast
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:48:24PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Please explain why it matters to the reader whether the letter A is
> > classifed by the unicode co
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:51:09PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Andreas Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Package: debian-policy
> > Version: 3.5.5.0
> > Severity: wishlist
>
> > $ egrep '^Package: lib.*-[[:digit:]]*$' unstable-Packages
> > Package: lib3ds-1.0-0
> > Package: libasis-3.13p-1
> > P
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:48:24PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > > Also, Unicode does include Fraktur characters.
> >
> > but in mathematical symbols - that is a completely different beast
>
> Please explain why it matters to the reader whether the letter A is
> classifed by the unicode consortium
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:34:40PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:47:18PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
>
> > The situation is IMHO quite similar to german for using Fraktur
> > (S?tterlin) script - it is a latin script, and unicode consortium
> > (IMHO rightfully) decided
> > I disagree. The Han Unification issue is more like the difference
> > between the latin and the italic character sets. Yes, many characters
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:20:21PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> No, because latin (upright) and italics are used interchangebly,
> whereas fraktur ca
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I am really not sure if unicode went the right way, I feel the ability
> > to display Chinese name in a Japanese document using Chinese glyphs
> > (or vice versa) is something that should not be get rid of...
>
> And, this could be rectified -- with Un
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:54:53PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> IMHO, a better mechanism are Unicode 3.1 language tags, see:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr27/#tag
Which says:
The characters in this block provide a mechanism for language tagging
in Unicode plain te
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:47:18PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> my proposal is #99933
Thanks.
> does JIS X0208 allow chinese characters to be used together with
> japanese?
I don't think so.
However, JIS X0208 implies a japanese character set and the
japanese language, while unicode indicate
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:07:21AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:41:13AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > Please read the proposal carefully (especially Marco and Junichi).
> > Writting (converting into) documents in UTF-8 is "should"
>
> I'm quite aware of that. [There'
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:47:26PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> As to the bash breakage, please quote the number. Thanks.
The full description of it is in the logs of bug#35049.
To get back to the policy proposal, I do think there are libraries
that should not have shared versions. Namely, ones t
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:41:13AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> Please read the proposal carefully (especially Marco and Junichi).
> Writting (converting into) documents in UTF-8 is "should"
I'm quite aware of that. [There's also a "should" on using a single
character set within a package.]
U
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:20:48AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > and neither is libc6 because some parts of it can only be linked
>> > statically.
>>
>> Which ones?
> /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a. It contains
Andreas Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.5.0
> Severity: wishlist
> $ egrep '^Package: lib.*-[[:digit:]]*$' unstable-Packages
> Package: lib3ds-1.0-0
> Package: libasis-3.13p-1
> Package: libgnat-3.13p-1
> Package: libgtrans-mysql-3-23
> Package: libgtrans-p
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Converting all documentation to utf-8 is ridiculous, and unnecessary.
>
> Do you think the currently proposed policy (documentation should be
Please read the proposal carefully (especially Marco and Junichi).
Writting (converting into) documents in UTF-
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