Re: Debian doesn't have to be slower than time.
On Feb 17, Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> wrote:
>Just because you happen to live in a country where an ASCII locale is
>acceptable doesn't make Unicode support a 'pet project'. Muddled locale
>support is an issue for the /majority/ of the world's Linux users, who
>don't do all of their computing in English.
Please do not confuse i18n and l10n with unicode support.
The reality is that most users do not need unicode support and cannot
use it as their native encoding because doing this would fuck up
communications with other people still using a local charset as their
native encoding.
And forcing it to be a release goal would be just stupid, unless you
plan to do the all the work needed to make all programs support it
correctly without breaking other things.
BTW, if you really like unicode why don't you start from the easy
tasks, like e.g. submitting the unicode patch to the bash maintainer?
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ciao,
Marco
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