On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:29:57AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:27:03PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > [...] > > Now a question: is there a standard way to specify a list of supported > > charset, that avoid spelling the list in full ? > > The idea is to let menu-method specify which charset they support > > with a declaration like > > supported_charset=iso8859-*,utf-8 > > It looks like a very bad idea to me, why are you trying to be kind with > poorly i18n-ed softwares?
Because it is better than letting them randomly break when users use non C locales ? > OTOH consider GNOME and KDE, their menu files (a.k.a desktop files) contain > translated entries for all languages in a single file. Their generation > can be performed under any UTF-8 locale, and conversion to user's charset > is performed on the fly. (AFAICT since I am not using them) > IMO you should focus on programs with good i18n support. The purpose of menu is to support *all* the window manager in Debian in the same way. menu does not focus on any particular program. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
