Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-03-29 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:08:54 +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want Japanese and UTF-8 support on the same floppy it would be > worth investigating whether slang1-wide could be made to work in CJK > encodings without too much trouble

Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-03-28 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Do you have a check list of the programs that will be linked against > > slang in boot-floppies? > > No, sorry. I just tried ldd on all the executable files in http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/root.bin The o

Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-03-28 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
> I shall try to produce an up-to-date slang-1.4.4-ege.diff soon. http://www.rano.org/mutt/slang-1.4.4-ege2.diff.gz Edmund

Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-03-28 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You seem to be avoiding the question here -- patch slang1, use > slang1-ja, or make a new slang1-wide package with these patches? It's hardly feasible to make a version of slang1 that works in UTF-8 and is bug-free and binary-compatible with ordinary slang1. (

Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-03-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please note that the patched slang1 is not binary compatible with the > unpatched slang1. Making it binary compatible would be a horrible hack > as the slang API exposes the internal representation of the contents > of a screen cell as a 32-bit wo

Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-03-28 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a patch from the boot-floppies archives to give slang wide > character support. I've attached that patch. Since making slang-1.4.0-ege5.diff I have fixed at least one bug and ported the patch to slang-1.4.2, I think. I shall try to produce an up-to-da

slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-03-27 Thread Adam Di Carlo
We need wide character support in slang for the boot-floppies so that the install program can display wide characters, such as Japanese or Chinese (Big5 *and* GB2312 encoding). I have a patch from the boot-floppies archives to give slang wide character support. I've attached that patch. I need