On 11/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would ask,"Are either of those truly part of the main purpose of LFS?"
That's narrow-minded. Support for those who speak any language isn't a worthy goal? As long as you're covered I guess. Fact is, UTF-8 support has been a goal for a long time. Look through the mailing lists. Matthew Burgess has said this repeatedly. > >From the book,"The goal of Linux From Scratch is to build a complete and > usable foundation-level system." The book already builds the kernel and > inetutils. Any advanced implementation of internationalization would > necessarily be left until BLFS. Inetutils has something to do with internationalization? > I don't know much about the necessities for a Unicode implementation but > aside from compiling the necessary kernel components I don't see it > changing the main book much. So, you obviously didn't read Alexander's UTF-8 book or make any attempt at investigation before making this statement. Look at Alexander's book. UTF-8 involves more than a few cosmetic changes from the very beginning. It's not just something you can decide in BLFS and say "You now what, I think I'd rather have UTF-8 now." Look, obviously international support is not an issue for you for whatever reasons you have. Just skip those parts if they get implemented and you don't want it. But to brush off support to a whole group of people is certainly not the way LFS should be going. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
