On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:13:24PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:50:40PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Unicode support at all levels. > > I would very much like to see good Unicode support in woody+1, but I > > don't see how this would be possible with a 4-month release cycle. > OTOH, there are many people who *don't* care about unicode support--why > should they have to wait for a new release? Everyone's got a pet > project, and they can't (shouldn't) all hold up every release... 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. It's not because I think Unicode is a good thing (although I do) that this concerns me. Rather, it's because I believe having two flavors of all the major console libraries (readline, ncurses, slang...) included in the release will be a source of maintenance overhead. Just look at how many RC base bugs this time around were caused by trying to get Unicode and non-Unicode to coexist sanely. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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