Your message dated Sat, 16 May 2009 22:17:21 +0100
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and subject line snownews has been removed from Debian, closing #320016
has caused the Debian Bug report #320016,
regarding snownews: Snownews compiled in UTF-8 but full-text console doesn't
support well UTF-8
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Package: snownews
Version: 1.5.6.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Default charset for Snownews is ISO-8859-1 but maintainer for this
package build the package in UTF-8.
The problem is that console doesn't support well UTF-8, it's ok with
xterm in graphic mode, but not in real console. Try it and watch all
special characters (like "é", "ç" etc.).
You would admit it's a strange thing for a text program to not be well
displayed in console mode :o).
Here is an explanation about UTF-8 support:
UTF-8 on Linux
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T4.7
I would suggest to do two packages:
* "snownews" built with default charset
* "snownews-utf8" built in UTF-8
Hope you will understand me :o). For now i recompile every release...
it's a bit anoying!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-powerpc
Locale: lang=fr...@euro, lc_ctype=fr...@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages snownews depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncursesw5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libxml2 2.6.16-7 GNOME XML library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-1 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages snownews recommends:
pn libxml-libxml-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libxml-libxslt-perl <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.5.10-1+rm
The snownews package has been removed from Debian so we are closing
the bugs that were still opened against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/468778 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
Kind regards,
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Marco Rodrigues
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