Bug#520786: Localicing error
Le mardi, 18 juin 2013 14.10:38, Klaus Ethgen a écrit :
> Am Di den 18. Jun 2013 um 12:56 schrieb Didier 'OdyX' Raboud:
> > I don't intend to patch cups to support non-UTF8 locales, hereby closing
> > this bug.
>
> Well, it is common sense to use iconv to produce output for every
> locale. Non-UTF-8 systems are not that uncommon.
Common-sense is still not the same as "just review and apply the patch that
someone provided in the bugreport". Apparently it's not that easy common-
sense: noone produced a patch for this issue yet.
> So, no, UTF-8 is no solution for all problems. And just the fact that
> "it works" doesn't mean that it works good.
Sure. But it works. I am yet to see a bug _in_cups_, that was due to UTF-8.
> But I cannot force you to solve the bug. But I think, it would be sad if
> you ignore the fact that there are other encodings around.
You're putting words in my mouth: I don't ignore that there are other
encodings around, and didn't write that at all, please re-read my quote above.
Cheers,
OdyX
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