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Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?



Hi there!

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:14:42 +0100, Miroslav Kure wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:37:54AM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>> 
>> However, I'm curious: is there a lot of software that is broken with
>> Unicode, particularly with the UTF-8 encoding? I can't remember anything
>> much in recent times.
>
> Mostly it is just the old stuff like
>  - eterm, aterm
>  - elvis
>  - X tools from the basic package (xman, xmessage, xmore, ...)
>  - TeX without additional packages

Plus a2ps (see #180236), something a lot of people use before KSPs, even
if there are various alternatives, some of them already in Debian:

  Message-ID: <4D3F1BF6.1060604@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
  URL: <http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%3c4D3F1BF6.1060604%40sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca%3e>

Everything should be at <http://wiki.debian.org/UTF8BrokenApps>.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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