On 10/9/07, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > This is just a quick status report on the snapshot status. > > What's delaying the snapshot right now is font and encoding issues. I > updated fonts and the Fontconfig package, ran a full installation on > QEMU and booted from the virtual HD and I still get squares in place > of some characters when loading KDE in Hungarian. I figured that if we > don't ship Bitstream Vera and ship Deja Vu instead, it will take over > as a default 'sans' font for the X server, fixing all apps at once. > > A problem is that OpenOffice ships Vera in its shared/fonts and the > latest Fontconfig package now adds /S/L/S/fonts to the global font > path. (why is that and do we REALLY need it? I'd rather keep full font > control in /Files/Fonts in 014.) > > I took a look at some of the console issues too. The version of ZSH > we're currently shipping does not support UTF-8 at all. I'm > considering upgrading, so that at least users have a chance of > configuring their systems to UTF-8 if they want to. I think bundling the newest 4.3 series release would be fine; I'm running a (slightly older) 4.3 release here right now, and it's perfectly stable, even if it is called a development release. And it does let you use diacritics on the command line without breaking as soon as you erase or scroll over them, which would be a big plus even if it were a little unstable. > > 014 will probably NOT ship with full UTF-8 support (not to mention > "full" UTF-8 support is a much more complicated issue than fixing > Hungarian support, if you think about CJK, etc.), but at least I'd > like to get our international support improved somewhat. CJK is probably a bit far to go in one step, especially without any native users around (that I know of?). Getting kana input in Xorg up and running is hard enough, let alone the console.
If there's a new snapshot out in the next couple of days I'll install it at home on my notebook over the weekend and start using it. -Michael _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
