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From: purslow@sympatico.ca
To: Heinrich Wendel <lanius@gentoo.org>
Cc: Gentoo Devt <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and UTF-8
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:50:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040820165036.GB16863@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408201343.28455.lanius@gentoo.org>

040820 Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> Gentoo's UTF-8 support is not very good at the moment.

more generally, GNU/Linux support for UTF8 is patchy.

recently, i checked out editors & word-processors
in order to be able to create & use documents containing
Ancient Greek with English and Esperanto with English
& found character input & printing very limited.
Gvim handles input ok & OO can print the result; Yudit is ok, if ugly;
one can get OO to input UTF8, but it needs workarounds; otherwise, v poor.

there are a lot of things which don't get noticed till someone tries them
& even then still don't get attended to when deficiencies are reported.

nonetheless, thanx to all the volunteers who do make things work usually.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-20 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-20 11:43 [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and UTF-8 Heinrich Wendel
2004-08-20 16:50 ` purslow [this message]
2004-08-23 11:42   ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-08-23 13:31     ` gabor
2004-08-23 16:08     ` Sven Vermeulen
2004-08-23 16:58       ` Heinrich Wendel
2004-08-25  8:30         ` Xavier Neys

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