On Friday 20 August 2004 18:50, purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
> 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

What I think is also very much needed for this is documentation. I 
currently run simply without setting any locale. This works for me, but 
if I were to test UTF8 stuff, I would need to know how.

Paul

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