-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:43:53 +0200 > Von: Egmont Koblinger > An: Pavel Tsekov > Betreff: Re: Getting ready for a release
> Being a maintainer of a distro what I see is that by now every Linux > distribution that matters has switched to using UTF-8, and mc is amongst > the > really very very few packages that still need to be patched to work > correctly in such environments. (I think mc is the only one where lack of > utf-8 support is immediately seen by the users and makes it nearly > unusable in such systems). Lack of UTF-8 support is a big minus on the part of MC, but I think that your statement is a bit overestimated. It's more like MC is not following the latest trend, IMO. > Hence distros will still have to patch mc for UTF-8, just > as they did with 4.6.1. It also implies that users won't > be able to simply download and compile and use this brand new mc - > they'll have to wait for their distributors to update the package, > which probably don't happen immediately due to the work required on > their side. MC on all major distros comes with the UTF-8 patch. MC in CVS is not different than the snapshots most of the distros use to build their packages - maybe there are some who stick to the 4.6.1 release though. > So IMHO UTF-8 support out of the box is a must for the version named 4.7. I haven't looked at the UTF-8 patch recently (but I will) so I cannot comment it. Do you think that UTF-8 patch 'as is' is the right way to implement UTF-8 for MC ? And what about ncurses - it is my opinion that it must not be dropped in favor of S-Lang... -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel