On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:34:56PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > IMO, the difference is that "redo/undo support" is just for convenience > but "CJK/bidi/Indic/combining" is mandatory for these people. However, > my proposal gave *less* score to CJK/bidi/Indic/combining (10) than > "redo/undo" (20). My proposal was so modest! Why do you want to > refuse even such a modest proposal? Because you are undermining your own thesis. Your position is that CJK/bidi/Indic/combining support is mandatory if Debian is stop its tradition of racist sin[1], and yet your own proposal doesn't even go very far to accomplishing that goal. The low score you attach to it amounts to little more than using the alternatives mechanism as a forum for editorializing about how we ought be good little boys and girls and not disenfranchise the CJK/bidi/Indic/combining support community. I do not think that the alternatives priority mechanism in Debian Policy manual is an appropriate forum for that sort of editorializing. The point of this thread, if I recall correctly, is to improve the chances that a sysadmin -- regardless of his experience level with Unix-style systems -- will have a editor with sufficient functionality to carry out administrative tasks in a non-intimitdating way. Frankly, until most of the files in /etc can be written in Devanagari or Japanese, I do not think a CJK/bidi/Indic/combining editor is very important for this goal. I agree that is is suboptimal that Debian sysadmins who don't speak English have a river to cross when it comes to /etc. I don't think CJK/bidi/Indic/combining (10) is going to do anything to help these people. Individual admins can manually set the editor alternative to a package that is appropriate for their users. It is difficult for Debian to tell what the typical installation environment for our OS is, but I'll bet you individual workstations or servers administrated by people with a sufficient command of "config file English" or better to get by covers the majority. I simply don't think it's reasonable to solve one problem with tools designed for another. Stop hammering i18n nails with the handle of a screwdriver, please. [1] BTW, if you'd lay off the inflammatory rhetoric it would help the signal-to-noise ratio; thanks. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If encryption is outlawed, only branden@debian.org | outlaws will @goH7Ok=<q4fDj]Kz?. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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