Re: unicode

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:11:46PM +0100, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote:

> Is Debian aims to be unicode compatible system?

Not officially, although I think that this is a worthwhile goal and
there are various efforts that try to bring Debian a little bit closer
to ubiquitous Unicode support.

> If yes, then should I mail a bug report against packages which are not 
> able to handle unicode?
> 
> If yes, should it be "Minor", "Normal" or "Important"?

wishlist

> For example, grep is not able to search unicode strings.

Is it not?

  srittau@jroger:~$ cat foo
  This is
  a test
  with Umlauts: äöü
  srittau@jroger:~$ grep ä foo
  with Umlauts: äöü
  srittau@jroger:~$ locale
  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
  LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_ALL=
  srittau@jroger:~$

 - Sebastian