tag 264017 + upstream thanks On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:18:38PM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > Package: xfonts-base > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 > Severity: wishlist > > The traditional short font aliases such as "fixed" hard-code the iso8859-1 > encoding. Thus, applications that use these aliases don't work in non > iso-8859-1 locales. If the aliases were changed to use a * for the > encoding, they would be useful in these locales. > > I realize there may be tradition or robustness rationales for leaving the > encoding hard-coded, so I understand if you cannot take this suggestion. ISTR from way back that there *is* a reason for hard-coding iso8859-1, but I can't at the moment recall it. I'll consider this bug as additionally resolvable by adequate documentation of that rationale, if it exists. -- G. Branden Robinson | Computer security is like an onion: Debian GNU/Linux | the more you dig in, the more you branden@debian.org | want to cry. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Cory Altheide
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