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Re: Proposed release goal: UTF-8 support



Hi Adam,

On 01-10-13 00:54, Adam Borowski wrote:
> * user-accessible interfaces (GUI, stdin, stdout, stderr, command line,
>   reading/writing plain-text files) should be able to pass through UTF-8
>   data uncorrupted, by default
> * UTF-8 should be properly displayed

I am wondering who is going to do the work for e.g. bug 576095 [1].
Upstream is basically dead and declared in the past that UTF-8 support
would mean a mayor effort (the e-mail archive I refer to in the bug got
lost). I am not going to do it as my c skills are not up to it. So what
do you propose in view of this release goal? That packages such as nedit
are removed from Debian? Apparently [2], there are still users
interested in this package, that is why I never removed it.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576095
[2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=nedit

Paul

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