Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-19 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > However, if the toolkit (or any other external component) can not > handle Unicode, we will have the code in LyX to convert to whatever is > appropriate. XForm just only cannot support Unicode, or it cannot support multi-byte in general? Oh, by the way,

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-19 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> > Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion > > May I know what this "last year's argument" is? I joined this list > for less than one month. The argument of last year is to use Unicode as the document encoding internally in LyX. Also, there is code in the old devel

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-16 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Andre' Poenitz wrote: > Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion > whether > it is sensible to use Unicode internally. The world is changing and > last > years' arguments won't fit anymore. May I know what this "last year's argument" is? I joined this list for less t

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Greg Lee wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > > Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-level support without > > > also sentence- and word-level support. When you cite from a > > > different language, the citation is obviously not always

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lgb, how long will it take to create those branches and give | the relevant people write access to the repository? To crate a branch takse close to no time, to give people asscess takes longer. And a screening process is also needed. In a

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Greg Lee
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-level support without > > also sentence- and word-level support. When you cite from a > > different language, the citation is obviously not always > > going to be a separate paragraph. > > As it

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-level support without > also sentence- and word-level support. When you cite from a > different language, the citation is obviously not always > going to be a separate paragraph. As it happens, sub-paragraph-level support is markedly more difficult tha

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Greg Lee
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: ... > not affect the left-to-right 8-bit languages, except maybe for a > small performance penalty. However, several voices say that > paragraph-level language support is important, so it seems that Surely those voices didn't mean paragraph-l

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jules Bean wrote: > My instinct says that most people aren't going to care in the slightest > about a doubling of internal buffer sizes. The combination of cheap > memory, cheap hard disks, and sensible VM systems makes this not much of > an issue, IMO. Can't you make it a

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> My instinct says that most people aren't going to care in the slightest > about a doubling of internal buffer sizes. The combination of cheap > memory, cheap hard disks, and sensible VM systems makes this not much of > an issue, IMO. *grin* Well, I did not want to write obvious things ;-) And

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jules> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: >> Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion >> whether it is sensible to use Unicode internally. The world is >> changing and last years' arguments won't fit anymore.

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote: > > Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion whether > it is sensible to use Unicode internally. The world is changing and last > years' arguments won't fit anymore. We could get rid of almost all of > the encoding stuff at the pr

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I disagree. Merging branches after a year or so of development in these > not-so-modular LyX sources is a major pain and I think it's a sure bet > to assume that most of the work spent in these branches will be lost. Oh, I disagree. It's very easy to keep a branch up-to-date. It's only a matte

Re: Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> So it's time to create a few cvs-branches. I disagree. Merging branches after a year or so of development in these not-so-modular LyX sources is a major pain and I think it's a sure bet to assume that most of the work spent in these branches will be lost (for quite a while at least). You see it

Internationalization and cvs

1999-12-15 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi fellow LyXers from all over the world, These days, we are overwhelmed with patches that extend the scope of LyX to Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and what have you. This is great, and very much appreciated. Now, the question is how to handle this. It seems to me that the Hebrew patch is