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Re: unicode



On Jul 25, 2003 at 09:38, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder praised the llamas by saying:
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> On Wednesday 30 October 2002 14:11, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote:
> 
> > Is Debian aims to be unicode compatible system?
> 
> IANADD - but I guess the answer definitely is yes. But it's not a very urgent 
> task.
> 
> > If yes, then should I mail a bug report against packages which are not
> > able to handle unicode?
> 
> If you manage to test for the right things next time, yes :-)
> You might also ask on the i18n lists if you suspect a problem.
> 
> I think in most cases this would be a minor (or at most normal) bug. 
> Submitting a patch will in most cases help more in getting it fixed quickly 
> than a raised severity does.
> 
> cheers
> -- vbi
> 
Probably the biggest unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or
less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem
to work out of the box.



-- 
David Pashley
david@parguild.co.uk

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