Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-10-01 Thread DJ Lucas
Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:03:00PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > >> Other packages in the base LFS utilize BDB. They may or may not work >> with GDBM so I'll be looking into that as soon as we get updated to >> reasonable revisions of all installed 'base' software. My questi

Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-09-30 Thread DJ Lucas
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:54:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:27:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >>> Modern versions of man-db default to expecting UTF-8 for ma

Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-09-30 Thread Ken Moffat
CC'ing to lfs-dev, if I've remembered to change to a subscribed address. On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:54:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:27:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I've been looking into the ad

Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-09-15 Thread DJ Lucas
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 07:03:03AM -0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > >> OK. I assume that adding "| iconv -f UTF-8 -t //TRANSLIT" to the end >> will make the line work also in non-UTF-8 locales (manual pages are >> still expected to be in UTF-8). Could you please test th

Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-09-15 Thread Lefteris Dimitroulakis
Στις Sunday 14 September 2008 22:00:58 ο/η Ken Moffat έγραψε: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:20:04PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > On Sunday 14 September 2008 21:47:05 Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > > the list again> > I had the same problem some time ago, but it was due to the fact that I was

Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-09-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:20:04PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2008 21:47:05 Ken Moffat wrote: > > list again> OK. My own filters noted the following, which I think is normal for gmail. Anyone able to comment on this ? X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.3 required=3.5

Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-09-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 07:03:03AM -0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > On Saturday 13 September 2008 21:31:48 Ken Moffat wrote: > > to forward> > OK, I'll try to CC it. > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 05:12:00PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov > > wrote: > > > Let's clarify the situation a bit. Ther

Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-09-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 05:12:00PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > Let's clarify the situation a bit. There are three possible outcomes for "man > foo" in the ru_RU.UTF-8 locale: > > 1) Glibberish (unacceptable, but, unfortunately, what happens if the system > is > misconfigured by an