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On Friday 20 August 2004 18:50, purslow@×××××××××.ca wrote: |
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> 040820 Heinrich Wendel wrote: |
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> > Gentoo's UTF-8 support is not very good at the moment. |
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> more generally, GNU/Linux support for UTF8 is patchy. |
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> recently, i checked out editors & word-processors |
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> in order to be able to create & use documents containing |
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> Ancient Greek with English and Esperanto with English |
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> & found character input & printing very limited. |
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> Gvim handles input ok & OO can print the result; Yudit is ok, if ugly; |
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> one can get OO to input UTF8, but it needs workarounds; otherwise, v |
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> poor. |
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> there are a lot of things which don't get noticed till someone tries |
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> them & even then still don't get attended to when deficiencies are |
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What I think is also very much needed for this is documentation. I |
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currently run simply without setting any locale. This works for me, but |
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if I were to test UTF8 stuff, I would need to know how. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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