Re: locales, nls - supportable or not?

2006-11-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:55:01AM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Hello, there was a thread on blfs-support that really made me think that all my efforts of adding locale support to the book were in vain. See

Re: locales, nls - supportable or not?

2006-11-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
Apologies for not replying earlier. I really didn't know what to say. On 11/14/06, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there was a thread on blfs-support that really made me think that all my efforts of adding locale support to the book were in vain. See

Re: locales, nls - supportable or not?

2006-11-18 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: Where did I get this bogus information from? It was from _you_ back when you I was trying to test out the nautilus-cd-burner bugs and you told me I needed to at least get xterm with luit set up for proper UTF-8 support. I did not explain my intentions well enough then. I

Re: locales, nls - supportable or not?

2006-11-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/18/06, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: As for the status of UTF-8 support on the console, here it is. snip Thanks for the explanation. And my experience was that most unicode characters wouldn't work on the console for me. Didn't work for input

Re: locales, nls - supportable or not?

2006-11-15 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: The problem is that the wrong answer is given to the original poster by TWO editors, and nobody corrected them. On this basis, I declare that locale issues are not really supportable (and DIY is right in ignoring them), and demand immediate removal of all UTF-8

locales, nls - supportable or not?

2006-11-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, there was a thread on blfs-support that really made me think that all my efforts of adding locale support to the book were in vain. See http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-support/2006-November/061520.html The problem is that the wrong answer is given to the