Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales

2023-01-20 Thread Anthony Fok
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:15 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 03:57:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:47:42AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > If the PRC government *requires* a non-UTF-8 encoding for things sold to > > them, we would be doing ou

Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales

2023-01-20 Thread Anthony Fok
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 7:27 AM Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:47:42AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Preferring to use Unicode does seem to be the direction that all of > > computing is going in, as a simplifying assumption - for example W3C > > advice for HTML is "You sh

Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales

2023-01-20 Thread Anthony Fok
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 7:42 AM Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:47:42AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 16:30:46 -0700, Anthony Fok wrote: > > > In their mind, GB 18030 encompasses a lot more than just > > > a character

Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales

2023-01-20 Thread Anthony Fok
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 4:47 AM Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 16:30:46 -0700, Anthony Fok wrote: > > In their mind, GB 18030 encompasses a lot more than just > > a character encoding mapping table. It is the full support package > > (including fonts,

Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales

2023-01-20 Thread Anthony Fok
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 6:30 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > > Anthony Fok writes: > > > I'm not asking you to spend any time working on GB18030; that would be > > the job of Debian Chinese i18n/L10n team as well as the wider community > > (glibc, libiconv, Qt, etc.) Al

Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales

2023-01-18 Thread Anthony Fok
t are actually selling their products in China. Many thanks for your understanding! Kind regards, Anthony Fok

Re: [developers-reference] 01/01: Change ftp-master-mirror to coccia.debian.org

2015-12-24 Thread Anthony Fok
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > It would probably be better to use "mirror.ftp-master.debian.org" here? > > Cheers, > Julien Very good point, Julien! Thank you for the suggestion! I have just pushed a new commit to use mirror.ftp-master.debian.org rather than coccia.debi

[developers-reference] 01/01: Replace coccia.debian.org with mirror.ftp-master.debian.org

2015-12-24 Thread Anthony Fok
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. foka pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit 54dc5a8c8f5ef4c84fac3e988e116b60f478fb7b Author: Anthony Fok Date: Thu Dec 24 17:21:59 2015 -0700 Replace coccia.debian.org with mirror.ftp

[developers-reference] branch master updated (e7af7aa -> 54dc5a8)

2015-12-24 Thread Anthony Fok
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. foka pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from e7af7aa Replace gitweb URL with cgit in Vcs-Browser field new 54dc5a8 Replace coccia.debian.org with mirror.ftp-master.debian.org

[developers-reference] 01/01: Replace gitweb URL with cgit in Vcs-Browser field

2015-12-24 Thread Anthony Fok
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. foka pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit e7af7aa9407c316b4b25f8fbf4a8c076a469f3b1 Author: Anthony Fok Date: Thu Dec 24 16:29:01 2015 -0700 Replace gitweb URL with cgit in Vcs

[developers-reference] branch master updated (ab0b6f4 -> e7af7aa)

2015-12-24 Thread Anthony Fok
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. foka pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from ab0b6f4 Change ftp-master-mirror to coccia.debian.org new e7af7aa Replace gitweb URL with cgit in Vcs-Browser field The 1 revisions

[developers-reference] branch master updated (92f3209 -> ab0b6f4)

2015-12-24 Thread Anthony Fok
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. foka pushed a change to branch master in repository developers-reference. from 92f3209 changing Makefile to handle russian translation new ab0b6f4 Change ftp-master-mirror to coccia.debian.org The 1 revisions l

[developers-reference] 01/01: Change ftp-master-mirror to coccia.debian.org

2015-12-24 Thread Anthony Fok
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. foka pushed a commit to branch master in repository developers-reference. commit ab0b6f45b3eb561da0a25bb4a2f444ce0b410759 Author: Anthony Fok Date: Thu Dec 24 16:22:13 2015 -0700 Change ftp-master-mirror to

Re: Uploading updated documentation package to frozen

1998-05-19 Thread Anthony Fok
On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 02:04:08PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 03:52:58PM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote: > > However, I would like to amend the above. (BTW, is it a Policy? I > > couldn't find the word "frozen" in the Policy Manual. ;-) IMHO,

Re: Uploading updated documentation package to frozen

1998-05-18 Thread Anthony Fok
nager" = Christian Hudon? :-) (I forgot, and I'm too lazy to look it up. ;-) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lad

Uploading updated documentation package to frozen

1998-05-17 Thread Anthony Fok
if not too hot :-) are welcome. :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/

Re: language for changelog

1998-04-20 Thread Anthony Fok
7;s rather sad to have to use English for this, it would be > better to have a contry-neutral language (Cu vi povas paroli Esperanton?). > But we can't have all we want in life.. =) Wow, you know Esperanto too? ;-) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental En

Re: language for changelog

1998-04-20 Thread Anthony Fok
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 11:43:16PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you want Debian to be a "Universal" Operating System, you can't > > dictate the "English" is the ultimate superior language alone. &

Re: language for changelog

1998-04-20 Thread Anthony Fok
but I thought an English summary was good enough (changes to xcin/tsin.c). It was rather technical or tedious. Just minor changes to the input method interface to make it work better and smoother. Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: language for changelog

1998-04-20 Thread Anthony Fok
e. (I am not sure if I know what I am talking about. It was a very rough translation/paraphrase. :-) I had a more detailed English summary for xcin_2.3.02-2, so I am not going to translate that again.) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineer

Re: language for changelog

1998-04-20 Thread Anthony Fok
CIN Project Home Page to the package description. * README.Debian: - Added the "Quick Start", "XCIN Team Member" and "Acknowledgement" sections. -- Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:21:43 -0600 xcin (2.3.02-2) frozen uns

Re: language for changelog

1998-04-20 Thread Anthony Fok
English. :-)/ s/license/license or document/ Also, *indicate the character set*!! For example, in my xcin changelog files, I have indicated the strange codes are in Chinese big5 code format. Other codings include ISO-8859-[1-9], KOI-8 (?), Chinese GuoBiao (GB) code, ISO-2022-JP/ZH/KR, Unicode (U

Re: Intent to package: debian-keyring

1998-04-19 Thread Anthony Fok
that it is fine to go into hamm. (Yes, I know that Christian has spoken. I haven't read his e-mail message in full yet, but I still think it is fine to go into Hamm.) Resolve it as you guys may, but don't waste time on this kind of minor matters because of "The Policy". Let&#

Re: Supporting upstream .tar.bz2

1998-03-20 Thread Anthony Fok
xtended to accept > .tar.bz2 too. (This entails modifying dinstall, dupload, dpkg-source and > possibly other tools.) "Me too!" :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ke

Re: glibc_2.0.7pre1-3 uploaded to master

1998-03-04 Thread Anthony Fok
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 06:52:24PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, nothing really, I guess ... Is it not the case that > > once you start using an epoch you can never cease? That 1:1.0.0 > > always is greater than 9.0.0? And the next time

Re: -O3 compilation?

1997-12-31 Thread Anthony Fok
enefit from -O3. Unless I'm mistaken, the Debian bzip2 already uses -O3: (From bzip2's ./Makefile) CFLAGS = -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops (Hehe, the upstream source came that way, so I never bothered to change it. ) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PRO

Re: Packages that require enormous amounts of source

1997-10-22 Thread Anthony Fok
midterm, still at school at 9:00 a.m. Haha...) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^*