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Jim Gifford wrote:
Alex here are my notes come up with comparing what you have done to what
the distro's have done. I'm currently researching this to add utf-8
support to Cross-
Alex here are my notes come up with comparing what you have done to what
the distro's have done. I'm currently researching this to add utf-8
support to Cross-LFS book..
1 - Ncurses - On locales that are not utf-8 capable, shouldn't you also
build the narrowc libraries also.
Ncurses in the
David Ciecierski wrote:
The worst part is that even if you put a lot of work into having UTF-8
support, many packages will not support it, crash or do other nasties.
Ideally, BLFS should have warnings on each broken package's page
suggesting the readers to avoid its installation if UTF-8 loca
Hugo Villeneuve wrote these words on 09/18/05 23:51 CST:
> I needed to apply this patch for gnumeric to compile correctly with
> libgsf-1.12.3. This patch updates gnumeric to new GSF_CLASS_FULL signature.
> Gnumeric appears to compile and work fine after this modification.
This patch appears to
In fact, I think that the patch made the book much worse for beginners,
it adds stuff that hides educational value, and that not all editors
understand. A current _documented_ limitation that UTF-8 is not
supported, IMHO, better fits with the style of the book.
Thus, I object to merging this i
Hello,
a patch that adds UTF-8 support to LFS is available at:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~alexander/patches/lfs_book-r6890-utf8-1.patch
The rendered book is available at:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~alexander/lfs-book/
Note that there was at least one case where SVN silently merged
