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- To: submit@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: gnome-pilot: multiple charset support missing
- From: Michael Bravo <mbravo@tag-ltd.spb.ru>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 20:15:38 +0400
- Message-id: <200009051615.e85GFcd03756@tctube.tag-ltd.spb.ru>
Package: gnome-pilot
Version: 0.1.54-helix1
Severity: wishlist
This wishlist should probably be forwarded to maintainers of all conduits,
I'm just unsure if that could be convenintly made using BTS.
As it happens, in some languages (Russian in my case) there is several
encodings for single language. Most Palm users employ win1251 encoding, while
Unix users employ koi8-r. It is possible to keep all information in the Palm
in koi8, however, it breaks all interoperability with other Palms, as people
won't be able to read your texts and address records, at least not without
extra effort. At the same time, if you keep your Palm records in win-1251,
then after syncing to your favourite Linux workstation you can't read a thing
in GnomeCal or GnomeCard or any other app you might have been wanting to use
with that information. The solution is to introduce a toggle in the conduit
configuration, like 'Recode' and then a listbox with available recoding
tables. I have hacked such a feature into PilotManager a year ago, however,
PilotManager authors didn't respond to my patches. Unfortunately, I do not
have the skill to introduce such feature into GnomePilot and its conduits,
but I think it should be pretty easy to do. Recoding can be achieved by
piping to an external program (which then probably should be Suggested: by
the package) or internally. If someone will need translation tables, I will
be happy to supply those.
Implementing this feature will make every Russian Palm and GNOME user happy,
and Palm<->GNOME desktop integration much tighter for us.
-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux tctube.tag-ltd.spb.ru 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages gnome-pilot depends on:
ii gdk-imlib1 1.9.8.1-helix5 Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library for use with
ii libart2 1.2.4-helix3 The Gnome canvas widget
ii libaudiofile0 0.1.9-0.1 The Audiofile Library
ii libc6 2.1.3-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libcapplet0 1.2.1-helix3 Library for Gnome Control Center applets
ii libdb2 2.7.7-2 The Berkeley database routines (run-time fil
ii libesd0 0.2.19-5 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries
ii libglade0 0.13-helix1 Library to load .glade files at runtime.
ii libglade-gnome 0.13-helix1 Library to load .glade files at runtime (Gno
ii libglib1.2 1.2.8-helix1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome32 1.2.4-helix3 The Gnome libraries
ii libgnome-pilot 0.1.54-helix1 Library for GNOME pilot
ii libgnomesuppor 1.2.4-helix3 The Gnome libraries (Support libraries)
ii libgnomeui32 1.2.4-helix3 The Gnome libraries (User Interface)
ii libgnorba27 1.2.4-helix3 Gnome CORBA services
ii libgtk1.2 1.2.8-helix2 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X
ii liborbit0 0.5.3-helix1 Libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB
ii libpanel-apple 1.2.1-helix6 Library for Gnome Panel applets
ii libpisock3 0.9.3-3 Libraries for communicating with a Pilot PDA
ii libxml1 1.8.9-helix1 GNOME XML library
ii xlib6g 3.3.6-10 shared libraries required by X clients
ii zlib1g 1.1.3-9 compression library - runtime
libesd-alsa0 Not installed or no info
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