Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:04:53PM +0200, you wrote: >>Okay. My primary objective was to enable UTF-8 support but AFAICS it is >>still not available in upstream coreutils. Do you think that we can pull >>the patch from Gentoo people, assuming that they improved and tested it >>for a while now? > > Assuming that all the previous objections to the patch have been > addressed, sure. If it's still the same kind of half-measure that got > shot down before (and wasn't accepted into coreutils for a reason), > then no. (IMO, it's better to have no UTF-8 support than UTF-8 support > that is fundamentally broken and which will cause inexplicable bugs.)
My objection to the patches I've seen is that their duplication of fundamental blocks of code makes maintenance harder. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
