-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:41:00 +0200 > Von: wwp > An: mc@gnome.org > Betreff: Re: Getting ready for a release
> Hello Egmont, > > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:16:44 +0200 Egmont Koblinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:20:10PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > I wouldn't call it 'trend'. Having splash screens, animated widgets, > > translucent windows, using ajax on the web, blogging etc etc etc. are > > trends. UTF-8 is the one and only known and sane way of handling all the > > non-english scripts, hence it's a technical decision. Moreover, mc not > > supporting UTF-8 doesn't just mean "it doesn't follow trends", it means > it's > > not _working_ correctly in most Linux systems - and that's more serious. > > > > As said, modern distros use UTF-8. If you switch back to an 8-bit locale > > just for mc, you'll have troubles with your text files' content, with > > filenames etc. - mc will not be compatible with all the other apps. If > you > > switch back globally for your system, you'll only be able to use a very > > small subset of non-English letters, and you'll still have problems > (e.g. > > when editing .desktop files, using Gtk2 file browser windows etc). > > > > If you think of it from a user's point of view, this whole story is > simply > > about "just works" vs. anything else. Obviously vast majority of the > users > > want applications and accented/CJK/etc letters to "just work". > > I'd second that, and I'm talking as an IT professional as well as a > personal user. UTF-8 is maybe a PITA from a programmer (and sometimes > even a user) point of view, but it sounds hard to avoid it nowadays, > unless you don't care about many languages. Maybe we would have had the > same discussion when color has appeared in terminals (even if I think > that UTF-8 is a new dimension that brings more than color, sometimes)? How many different languages do you actually use in your day to day work ? There is no need to educate me on the positive effect of having UTF-8. I understand pretty well that it is a very useful thing to have UTF-8 support, but IMO Egmont statement was a bit exaggarated. Something like ... "Wow, now we can read/write documents in other languages" or at least I got it that way. Anyway, UTF-8 is important but it is obvious that it is not going to happen in October. It would become my priority once we have a release. -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
