Re: UTF-8 bugs (was: Deadline for jessie init system choice)
On 2013-12-29 23:39:41 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: I've orphaned xpp in 2010, and that's after it was as good as dead upstream since 2005 with no releases. The last time anyone touched the code upstream was in 2008. IMHO, we should just remove it from Debian. It was damn useful when it was current with CUPS and its toolkit, but it has accumulated too much bitrot already over 10 years of being abandoned upstream. It is sad. xpp really deserves better than lingering on in its currentlly half-broken, unloved state. It seems that gtklp might be used as a replacement, but it was broken too... 7 years ago, and may still be: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392184 I haven't tried since. -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.net - Web: http://www.vinc17.net/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: http://www.vinc17.net/blog/ Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131230172059.gc9...@xvii.vinc17.org
Re: UTF-8 bugs (was: Deadline for jessie init system choice)
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Vincent Lefevre wrote: * xpp does not support UTF-8 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630717 I've orphaned xpp in 2010, and that's after it was as good as dead upstream since 2005 with no releases. The last time anyone touched the code upstream was in 2008. IMHO, we should just remove it from Debian. It was damn useful when it was current with CUPS and its toolkit, but it has accumulated too much bitrot already over 10 years of being abandoned upstream. It is sad. xpp really deserves better than lingering on in its currentlly half-broken, unloved state. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131230013941.ga1...@khazad-dum.debian.net
UTF-8 bugs (was: Deadline for jessie init system choice)
On 2013-12-14 14:46:03 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Pavel Volkov wrote: What's wrong with UTF-8 currently? fmt: incorrect formatting of UTF-8 text http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650381 tr: fails to replace umlauts http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388689 tr fails with UTF-8 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431231 _CTYPE with UTF-8 doesn't work correctly http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139861 tr cannot handle unicode http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613155 uniq: merges obscure Cyrillic characters http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649729 I am sure there is more. Here are a few other ones: * scp output alignment bug with UTF-8/multibyte sequences http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407088 I've just reported it upstream. * xmessage ignores locale encoding http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505893 (and in particular it is wrong with UTF-8 locales) * xpp does not support UTF-8 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630717 * xprop assumes that WM_ICON_NAME and WM_NAME are encoded in ISO-8859-1 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699746 -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.net - Web: http://www.vinc17.net/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: http://www.vinc17.net/blog/ Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131229012028.ga32...@xvii.vinc17.org
