From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25408 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2004 16:50:37 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 20 Aug 2004 16:50:37 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ByCb7-0006zY-Jf for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:50:37 +0000 Received: (qmail 391 invoked by uid 89); 20 Aug 2004 16:50:37 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 11734 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2004 16:50:36 +0000 From: purslow@sympatico.ca Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:50:36 -0400 To: Heinrich Wendel Cc: Gentoo Devt Message-ID: <20040820165036.GB16863@sympatico.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Heinrich Wendel , Gentoo Devt References: <200408201343.28455.lanius@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408201343.28455.lanius@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: fac2860d-cf5f-4317-923a-682e1891bd19 X-Archives-Hash: 0d9d4bc2389ab7de51b0b089a743e1b1 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. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list