Bug#215647: [patch] xterm 4.3.0-0pre1v3 i18n
Hi,
From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#215647: [patch] xterm 4.3.0-0pre1v3 i18n
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:07:51 -0500
> People using UTF-8 locales should use uxterm.
No.
Reasons:
1. If you say "People using UTF-8 locales may have to use uxterm
(or other special softwares) because the main software (xterm in
this case) is not improved enough", then I may agree. However,
in this case, improvement is very easily possible.
2. UTF-8 is only one of many locales. How about other locales
like EUC-JP, ISO-8859-11, KOI8-R, and so on so on? Do people
using EUC-JP locales should use "eucjpxterm"? Do people using
ISO-8859-13 locales should use "iso885913xterm"?
3. There are already a standardized way called "locale" for users
to set only one (or a few) variable(s) such as LANG, LC_ALL,
LC_MESSAGES, LC_CTYPE to order all softwares (including xterm)
to follow it. In well-i18n-ed situation, all that users have to
do is just to set LANG variable, and then all softwares respect
it. Why do you ignore the standardized way even when it is easily
implemented?
I have already wrote these reasons (in different ways). If you
understand what I wrote, I expect that you will never say such
a thing ("People using UTF-8 locales should use uxterm"). Thus,
I imagine you have difficulty understanding what I wrote. Please
tell me what the difficulty is.
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
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