On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> > What does still break under UTF-8 and needs to be fixed?
> My main problem has been pine.
I just sent a message to Pine developer Mark Crispin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to inform him about our activities (UTF-8
xterm, glibc, etc.), and he replied: "This is indeed very exciting news.
[...] I am also willing to cooperate with your group. I've had a
personal interest in full i18n in Pine for several years. Much of the
low-level work for UTF-8 in Pine is already done; the main missing piece
is code to generate text in a non-UTF-8 charset." Sounds promising!
The standard blurb that I send out to developers of major software
packages is
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Dear XYZ development team,
One of the recent exciting developments on POSIX platforms (in
particular Linux and XFree86) is that the Unicode (ISO 10646) character
set in the UTF-8 encoding gets more and more widely supported at all
levels. There is now a realistic hope that UTF-8 will have replaced most
legacy character encodings on GNU/Linux systems within the next 24
months.
I would like to invite you to join our group of people dedicated to
enabling UTF-8 support in open source software, because UTF-8 support in
your package is widely seen as a critical milestone before ubiquitous
UTF-8 usage becomes feasible.
If you are interested, you can best get started by reading the "UTF-8
and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux" on
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
You might also want to join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing where
people actively working on UTF-8/Unicode support in various Unix systems
exchange know-how and experiences. To subscribe, send to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a message with the line "subscribe linux-utf8" in
the body.
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Feel free to recycle this message and send something similar to the
developers of your favourite not-yet-UTF-8-aware text mode application.
Encourage them to install UTF-8 xterm and play around with it a bit to
get a feeling for what is to come.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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