Re: Bug#434206: ITP: moe -- powerful text editor for ISO-8859 andASCII character encodings
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On 08/01/07 02:02, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:01:29 +0200, Antonio Diaz Diaz
> <ant_diaz@teleline.es> wrote:
>> GNU Moe is a console text editor written to be stable, compact and
>> powerful. It is the middle point between GNU Ed and GNU Emacs, and it
>> deliberately doesn't support multibyte encodings.
>
> The last sentence rules it out for me. I insist in being able to write
> comments in my native language.
Change your native language to American. Problem solved!
> Including a new non-UTF8-capable editor in the archive in 2007 is the
> wrong signal, IMO.
If it can't be encoded in ANSI_X3.4-1968, it doesn't need to be encoded.
(For the humor impaired, or those who haven't yet drunk their
coffee: such chauvinistic rants are *OBVIOUSLY* designed as
sarcastic humor. Angry repliers will be hereafter branded as
boorish sticks in the mud.)
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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