#1849: The "locale related issues" page in BLFS is dummy
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: lfs-book@linuxfromscratch.org
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.2
Component: Book | Version: 6.2-pre1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
How about the following diff:
{{{
Index: profile.xml
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--- profile.xml (revision 7740)
+++ profile.xml (working copy)
@@ -162,10 +162,26 @@
<beginpage/>
- <para>UTF-8 based locales are not supported well by many programs.
E.g., the
- <command>watch</command> program displays only ASCII characters in
UTF-8
+ <para>UTF-8 locales will be definitely preferred in the future, but
right now
+ they are not supported well by many programs. E.g., the
+ <command>watch</command> program displays only ASCII characters in such
locales and has no such restriction in traditional 8-bit locales like
en_US.
- Work is in progress to document and, if possible, fix such problems,
see
- <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/introduction/locale-
issues.html"/>.</para>
+ Programs with the opposite bug do exist (e.g., Nautilus CD Burner),
+ but they are a rare exception, not the rule. For non-English speakers,
+ bugs related to non-ASCII characters are usually showstoppers.</para>
+ <para>The key to a working UTF-8 based system is to avoid installing
+ broken programs such as A2ps, non-Bash shells, Enscript, GTK-1.2.10
+ (in this case, the bug is actually in Xorg),
+ Ispell, Links, Midnight Commander, Nano 1.2.x. The list above is
incomplete,
+ in most cases there is no fix available.
+ Also, many programs for Microsoft Windows (e.g., WinEdt) create
+ interoperability problems because they cannot process
+ UTF-8 encoded text documents correctly.
+ These problems are documented in more detail in
+ BLFS Book Notes at
+ <ulink url="http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/BlfsNotes"/>.
+ If you depend on any of the broken-in-UTF-8 programs and libraries,
+ don't use UTF-8 based locales.</para>
+
</sect1>
}}}
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