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Bug#83063: PROPOSED] enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy



On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:12:57PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think this proposal is too biased to UTF-8.

Sigh.  I was afraid this would happen.

> UTF-8 is mere one encoding out of many encodings in the world, though
> it is an important one.

Yes.  It is also the future.

ISO-2022 may be nice, but it is not the future.

I must object to these amendments to my proposal.  It doesn't seem
worthwhile to construct x-terminal-emulator policy in such a way that kterm
is destined to become everyone's default.

On the contrary, my proposal would leave most terminal emulators at parity
with each other.  It does, however, point the way towards enhancements that
are going to be important in the future.

Policy should serve as a guideline, not a sneaky coronation of some
particular terminal emulator as Debian's mandated default.  I'd rather
remove all the UTF-8/Unicode stuff from my proposal than do that.

-- 
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Debian GNU/Linux                |      thinking, they'll love you;
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