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Re: Bug#95018: UTF-8 Patch breaks slrn display on UTF-8 terminal



There seem to be a whole bunch of problems with the utf8 slang
packages.  People are having trouble with slrn, lynx, etc.  Possibly
these packages just need to be recompiled but the following seems more
serious:

> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:36:38PM +0200 , Jim Mintha wrote:
> > I just uploaded them.  (I just realized that i missed adding the
> > Closes, but I'll do it by hand)  Let me know if there are problems.
> 
> there are. like debconf/whiptail segfaulting. Not evern recompile helps.
> Arguably it's a bug in newt, because it's not using the correct slang type
> defines, but still. It changes the API of slang, so every program using it,
> must be recompiled. Also querybts doesn't work
> 
> 				Petr Cech

Any thoughts at what should be done?  Can these be fixed, or should we
make a seperate slang-utf8 package?

Jim

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