On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:08 PM, David E. Thiel <l...@redundancy.redundancy.org> wrote: > Agreed. Proven fact: non-English-speaking people exist. Minimalism and > simplicity shouldn't exclude basic functionality like displaying > characters in the language the user speaks.
Rendering thousands of different codesets is not "basic functionality." Proven (in this very thread) fact: nobody has yet come up with a suckless way to display unicode. If x11's font rendering is broken, fix it -- don't bloat up client software to work around it. # Kurt H Maier
