Re: Precomposed Unicode layouts and permutations (was:Re: hello + UTF-8

2005-08-11 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:06:06PM -0400, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > > > If this is something you're serious about, you should bring this up on > > the Unicode list. I haven't been on there for too long but I don't > > recall a proposal like this coming by

Re: Precomposed Unicode layouts and permutations (was:Re: hello + UTF-8

2005-08-10 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> With the size of the Unicode set, there is nothing to stop there > being a precomposed layout out there, as long as someone has created it. I don't think that's necessarily true. Implementing precomposed and decomposed characters in the same standard introduces two potential encodings for the

Re: Debian-Women and SPI

2005-07-26 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> > On 22/07/2005, at 10:32 PM, John Goerzen wrote: > > >* Translation? We try to make the website (www.spi-inc.org) available > > in as many languages as possible. > > I had a look a few days ago, and I'm willing to do it, as long as you > don't mind it happening in bits and pieces. ;) T

Re: Debian-Women and SPI

2005-07-26 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> I sat in on the end of an SPI meeting a while ago, in which the > topic of volunteers for the membership committee was discussed. I > realised at that point that I would very much enjoy getting more > involved in SPI, but had always assumed that it just wasn't an > option because I wasn't one of

Re: Software Freedom Day

2005-07-05 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> Software Freedom Day (http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/) is coming > up in the not-too-distant future (September 10th). For those of you > who haven't heard of Software Freedom Day, it's an annual > celebration of free software, largely intended to be an outreach > activity. I think it'd be a g

Re: Fw: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:34:14AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:27:02PM -0200, Fernanda Giroleti Weiden wrote: > > One way of fixing this specific problem is creating a way to choose > > between pictures of women or men on the program. Yes, why not have p0rn > > picture

Re: Ubuntu Conference

2004-12-01 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:30:26AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > It's great to see interest in Ubuntu from Debian-Women. Absolutely! I will also be there the entire duration and would love to talk or to help in running a session in whatever way that I can. I didn't see such a session on the sched

Re: Fw: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:27:02PM -0200, Fernanda Giroleti Weiden wrote: > First of all, it's a sexist package, sure. Putting a program on Debian > in which you have pictures of nude women is VERY agressive to the most > women. Yes, it's agressive to me. > > One way of fixing this specific probl