On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:11:15PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > So, I decided that I should not give any advice to the LFS project at > all rather than questionable advice based on Debian and obsolete versions. > Alexander, your advice has been invaluable. I hope that in the future you will be back.
> This also means that LFS should drop (too kludgy and half-working) UTF-8 > support. This decision is also backed by the fact that some BLFS editors > repeatedly, but certainly not deliberately, misinterpreted my writings. > Beware, however, that there are applications (e.g. shadow and > nautilus-cd-burner) that expect RedHat-like UTF-8 setup (shadow is > already fixed in the book, nautilus-cd-burner is unfixable). The world is moving to UTF-8, the number of applications expecting it will increase. Certainly, what is in LFS doesn't work for all languages, but I think it is a step forward. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
