Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)

2011-02-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 11 février 2011 à 19:33 +0100, Axel Beckert a écrit : Kicking out good and unique software, only because of missing or incomplete UTF-8 support, will surely lower Debian's quality more than missing or broken UTF-8 support in very few packages. And it would make those users (and

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)

2011-02-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Josselin Mouette writes (Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)): Kicking out software that doesn?t work at all in UTF-8 locales and requires the user to set a broken locale, OTOH, sounds like a sanitary emergency. Excellent, I look forward to the removal

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)

2011-02-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk, 2011-02-14, 12:42: Kicking out software that doesn?t work at all in UTF-8 locales and requires the user to set a broken locale, OTOH, sounds like a sanitary emergency. Excellent, I look forward to the removal of python. I always hated that

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)

2011-02-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 14 février 2011 à 12:42 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : Josselin Mouette writes (Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)): Kicking out software that doesn?t work at all in UTF-8 locales and requires the user to set a broken locale, OTOH, sounds like

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)

2011-02-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Josselin Mouette wrote: You must specify the encoding of your data in your bitstreams. I agree this is inconvenient (and one of the things I dislike in Python), but it is: 1. completely independent of the locale (UTF8 or not) 2. easy to work with once you

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)

2011-02-14 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:01:08PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: As long as python 3 is compiled to use UCS-4 as the internal representation, you mean. Are our packages set to use UCS-4? At least for python 3.1, yes: common_configure_args = \ --prefix=/usr \

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)

2011-02-11 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Adam Borowski wrote: Speaking of rxvt... shouldn't this clusterϫϫck become the only rxvt in Debian? Both rxvt and rxvt-beta, completely dead upstream for 10 and 8 years respectively, besides having terrible support for terminal codes lack even such a tiny detail as UTF-8 support. I'd