Re: glimpse sucks.
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:17:55PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> This is a showstopper, as we have 2 old and 2 new Chinese lists in the
> archive. :/ It would be very bastardish to leave those lists with Glimpse.
> Then again, I'm not sure Glimpse works fine with those lists, being so old,
> made in a rather i18n-deprived times... Can someone confirm that searching
> -chinese-* lists produces correct output, please? (Anthony?)
I've talked to the upstream people and while they are keen, they have no
idea how to implement it. The main problem is no of their programmers
live in a place with dual-byte character sets.
Any volunteers?
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