Re: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment
Steve,
Are you on the debian-emacsen list?
On 31 Oct 2002 jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 "Wedler, Christoph" <christoph.wedler@sap.com> wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > If you use the `setq' mentioned at the beginning, your problem should
> > disappear.
>
> The problem is not only mine and it is general. If you install
> x-symbol package on Debian system on the request of a user, some other
> users may have to edit their perfectly legal TeX files. This should be
> remedied as soon as possible, either by you or by the Debian package
> maintainer.
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 "Wedler, Christoph" <christoph.wedler@sap.com> wrote:
[...]
> It's general for all people where ALL of the following conditions are
> true:
>
> * they have a non-latin-1 default coding system (or read files with the
> coding: spec) which produces/reads 8bit chars ().
Quite a lot of them.
>
> * they use \usepackage[latinN]{inputenc} where N != 1
Quite a lot of them.
> * their system does not have the locale command
The LaTeX commands should be sufficient for a LaTeX documents.
>
> * they don't read the warnings issued by X-Symbol (OK, it's a bit
> hidden with Emacs < 21.4).
GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (from a Debian package) gives no warning at all.
> * they don't read carefully the installation instruction while using
> beta software.
The x-symbol is a package from the stable Woody Debian GNU/Linux
distribution. One does not read installation instruction when
installing a Debian package.
>
> > This should be remedied as soon as possible, either by you or by the
> > Debian package maintainer.
>
> As I said, probably next week. BTW, you are allowed to send patches.
I can test the corrected Debian package.
Regards
Janusz
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Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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