Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 4/12/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not really a suggestion, but I think that the whole idea of the "locale related
issues" page failed. The Wiki contains a lot of candidate information for this
page, and the process of its addition is too slow.
So for now, just add a link to http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Nano
which now contains your text almost verbatim.
You're probably right about that. What does everyone think about
this? My thoughts are that pointing to the Wiki is good for stopgap
solutions like suggesting upgrading a version. However, if the book
was to be released, we'd want to put that information on the Locale
Related Issues so that information was contained within the book.
Thoughts anyone?
Which of the following types of notes are considered stopgap solutions? What's
the proper place for each one in the released book (one of: the main package
page, Locale-Related Issues page, Wiki)?
1) "This package simply doesn't work in multibyte locales, don't use it or
downgrade to 8-bit locale. There is nothing functionally equivalent in BLFS or
beyond, so no other solution exists"
2) "This subcomponent of a package doesn't work correctly in multibyte locales
(e.g.: printing from Vim), but the rest of the package works very well"
3) "This package needs horrible workarounds, like post-processing the output
with a perl script, in order to produce the correct result"
4) "This package simply doesn't work in multibyte locales, but there is a nearly
equivalent replacement in the book"
5) "This package simply doesn't work in multibyte locales, but there is a nearly
equivalent replacement beyond BLFS"
6) "This package needs upgrading to a development version"
7) "This package needs a big patch that makes it work in both 8-bit and
multibyte locales"
8) "This package has a patch available, but it breaks functionality in 8-bit
locales"
9) "This package needs one extra line added to its default configuration file"
10) [example: ROX Filer, if it were in the book] "This package authors
deliberately break functionality in non-UTF-8 locales. Don't use this package in
such locales"
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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