FYI
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: NEWT Support for UTF-8 and Fribidi Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:07:12 -0600 (CST) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:45:28 +0100 From: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My answers will probably be far from complete...but others are welcome to correct my mistakes.
1. is Newt UTF-friendly ? and if it is who is the code maintainer ? and is there a mailing list for it. I could not find any
I'm pretty sure it is (UTF friendly), as it perfectly handles japanese, russian, greek (and Arabic, at least when it comes to UTF-8 encoded characters) stuff.
The newt package is maintained by Alastair.
So, as he is currently away or less active, a NMU may be proposed by the debian-boot team, if needed.
2. is libtextwrap UTF-8 friendly ?
Ask maintainer. http://packages.debian.org/libtextwrap
3. Should we have newt lib or should we hack cdebconf/newt.c file ? Most likely we will need to hack newt lib. then were should we start.
4. is there s CVS we need to check changes in and who should we talk to to give them the patches.
If Alastair has a CVS for newt, it may be on alioth....
IMHO, you should first "apt-get source newt", hack it down as you need, then propose a patch.
I may help in testing it by manually building ISO images with it along with complete Arabic translations. I finally managed to be able to build hand-crafted ISO images.
The most difficult is our 9 hours time lag...:)
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