Randy McMurchy wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote these words on 01/07/06 08:52 CST: > >>Can someone point me to the discussion thread that decided this >>change of man package? > > > Unfortunately, for these very reasons, there really was no discussion > of putting in UTF-8 in LFS trunk, it was more of a "just do it". Not > that it is bad, mind you, but for those that sort of just skim over > i18n and UTF8 threads, it may have come as a surprise.
Getting more i18n support and UTF-8 into LFS has been talked about for a *long* time. Even recently, Alexander brought up a thread called 'Pushing UTF-8 into LFS'. There he said that if no one had objections he would eventually be providing patches to the book. There have been plenty of opportunities to speak up and say we should or shouldn't do this. There was even just a week ago a thread called 'UTF-8 book is ready for merging'. That was prime opportunity for anyone to speak up and give their opinions. In fact several did. Even more opportunity arose when the first patch was reverted. I wouldn't call that no discussion. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
