Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-19 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > However, if the toolkit (or any other external component) can not > handle Unicode, we will have the code in LyX to convert to whatever is > appropriate. XForm just only cannot support Unicode, or it cannot support multi-byte in general? Oh, by the way,

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-19 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> > Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion > > May I know what this "last year's argument" is? I joined this list > for less than one month. The argument of last year is to use Unicode as the document encoding internally in LyX. Also, there is code in the old devel

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-16 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Andre' Poenitz wrote: > Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion > whether > it is sensible to use Unicode internally. The world is changing and > last > years' arguments won't fit anymore. May I know what this "last year's argument" is? I joined this list for less t

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Greg Lee wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > > Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-level support without > > > also sentence- and word-level support. When you cite from a > > > different language, the citation is obviously not always

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lgb, how long will it take to create those branches and give | the relevant people write access to the repository? To crate a branch takse close to no time, to give people asscess takes longer. And a screening process is also needed. In a

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Greg Lee
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-level support without > > also sentence- and word-level support. When you cite from a > > different language, the citation is obviously not always > > going to be a separate paragraph. > > As it

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-level support without > also sentence- and word-level support. When you cite from a > different language, the citation is obviously not always > going to be a separate paragraph. As it happens, sub-paragraph-level support is markedly more difficult tha

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Greg Lee
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: ... > not affect the left-to-right 8-bit languages, except maybe for a > small performance penalty. However, several voices say that > paragraph-level language support is important, so it seems that Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-l

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jules Bean wrote: > My instinct says that most people aren't going to care in the slightest > about a doubling of internal buffer sizes. The combination of cheap > memory, cheap hard disks, and sensible VM systems makes this not much of > an issue, IMO. Can't you make it a

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> My instinct says that most people aren't going to care in the slightest > about a doubling of internal buffer sizes. The combination of cheap > memory, cheap hard disks, and sensible VM systems makes this not much of > an issue, IMO. *grin* Well, I did not want to write obvious things ;-) And

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jules> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: >> Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion >> whether it is sensible to use Unicode internally. The world is >> changing and last years' arguments won't fit anymore.

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: > > Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion whether > it is sensible to use Unicode internally. The world is changing and last > years' arguments won't fit anymore. We could get rid of almost all of > the encoding stuff at the pr

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I disagree. Merging branches after a year or so of development in these > not-so-modular LyX sources is a major pain and I think it's a sure bet > to assume that most of the work spent in these branches will be lost. Oh, I disagree. It's very easy to keep a branch up-to-date. It's only a matte

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> So it's time to create a few cvs-branches. I disagree. Merging branches after a year or so of development in these not-so-modular LyX sources is a major pain and I think it's a sure bet to assume that most of the work spent in these branches will be lost (for quite a while at least). You see it