On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:07:11AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Well, to request sensible-x-terminal-emulator does not mean > furious forking of terminal emulators, IMHO. No, but the latter is encouraged by the former. > Also I think to request sensible-x-terminal-emulator does not mean > to prevent any efforts towards making the standard implementation > of a terminal emulator. > > The request of sensible-x-terminal-emulator might be the result of > variety of terminal emulators but definitely not the cause of forking > of terminal emulators. I think it is a feedback loop. > Furthermore I do not think even if there is one terminal emulator, > xterm for example, which can handle every kind of multi-byte characters > well enough it become the unique terminal emulator in Debian. > > There should be people who wants more small and light terminal emulator > and so on. That issue is utterly orthogonal. This "sensible-x-terminal-emulator" idea is being forwarded due to the lack of a standard X terminal that handles most locales well. If more than one terminal emulator did so, there would be no need for "sensible-x-terminal-emulator" at all, since we could use the alternatives mechanism to score such programs more highly than their stripped down or locale-specific counterparts. I still wonder if this issue can't be better resolved by promoting the alternatives priority of locale-specific xterm-type-programs like hanterm and then including them in a task package corresponding to that locale. Thus hanterm might have priority 50 while xterm has only priority 20. But hanterm would be depended upon by, for instance, task-chinese-t[1], which Americans and Europeans likely would not install. [1] I don't know if this specific example is correct. To the beast of my limited knowledge, Han is the Chinese character set, Hangul is Korean, and Japan has at least three: Hirigana, Katakana, and Kanji. I have no idea what the Vietnamese character set is called. -- G. Branden Robinson | It's not a matter of alienating authors. Debian GNU/Linux | They have every right to license their branden@deadbeast.net | software however we like. http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- Craig Sanders, in debian-devel
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