From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9997 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 11:44:28 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Aug 2004 11:44:28 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzDFT-00080b-KN for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:44:27 +0000 Received: (qmail 32501 invoked by uid 89); 23 Aug 2004 11:44:27 +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 9936 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 11:44:26 +0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:42:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200408201343.28455.lanius@gentoo.org> <20040820165036.GB16863@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040820165036.GB16863@sympatico.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_6gdKBSngwPKXR3d"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408231342.50321.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: b8a26e88-f0d3-401a-993c-1597eb3ade83 X-Archives-Hash: f01a96b88a5bd19ce22cded906139a6a --Boundary-02=_6gdKBSngwPKXR3d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 currently run simply without setting any locale. This works for me, but=20 if I were to test UTF8 stuff, I would need to know how. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_6gdKBSngwPKXR3d Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBKdg6bKx5DBjWFdsRArZUAKCDWL3H5Zw0CfAwsRsKQC+sIt24HACgsKgP WLtXkpAiZOqx2RIPB1XnP1Q= =bpyW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_6gdKBSngwPKXR3d--