On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > However, I'm curious: is there a lot of software that is broken with > Unicode, particularly with the UTF-8 encoding? I can't remember anything > much in recent times.
1. Stuff that cannot do one of UTF-8, UTF-16 or UCS-4. 2. Anything that cannot deal with Supplementary planes. This includes the use of UCS-2 instead of UTF-16, as it cannot represent the Supplementary planes. python 3 when not compiled to use UCS-4 memory hog mode is an example, I am told. We likely want to restrain ourselves to declaring (1) to be release critical for Wheezy. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110211221653.gb18...@khazad-dum.debian.net