Bug#603915: release-notes: Please document that use of non-UTF8 locales is strongly discouraged

2013-01-23 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
How about adding this to old-stuff.dbk : --- In the GNOME screensaver using passwords with non-ASCII characters, pam_ldap support, or even the ability to unlock the screen is unreliable when not using UTF8. The GNOME screenreader is affected by bug http://bugs.debian.org/599197";>#5

Bug#603915: release-notes: Please document that use of non-UTF8 locales is strongly discouraged

2011-01-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 30 décembre 2010 à 20:22 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit : > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 16:15:10 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > given that we regularly identify bugs, at least for GNOME, that manife

Bug#603915: release-notes: Please document that use of non-UTF8 locales is strongly discouraged

2010-12-30 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 16:15:10 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > given that we regularly identify bugs, at least for GNOME, that manifest > > only when using a non-UTF8 locale - and I mean important bugs like not

Bug#603915: release-notes: Please document that use of non-UTF8 locales is strongly discouraged

2010-11-21 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi there, On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > given that we regularly identify bugs, at least for GNOME, that manifest > only when using a non-UTF8 locale - and I mean important bugs like not > being able to unlock the screensaver, non-working screenreader, or >

Bug#603915: release-notes: Please document that use of non-UTF8 locales is strongly discouraged

2010-11-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 20 novembre 2010 à 17:03 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña a écrit : > I have written a first attempt to document this, you can find the diff in > http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes/en/old-stuff.dbk?r1=7682&r2=7768 > > Comments welcome. It looks correct

Bug#603915: release-notes: Please document that use of non-UTF8 locales is strongly discouraged

2010-11-20 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > On the desktop, such legacy locales are just hacks in the libraries > internals, and we cannot decently provide support for users who still > use them. I have written a first attempt to document this, you can find the diff in

Bug#603915: release-notes: Please document that use of non-UTF8 locales is strongly discouraged

2010-11-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, given that we regularly identify bugs, at least for GNOME, that manifest only when using a non-UTF8 locale - and I mean important bugs like not being able to unlock the screensaver, non-working screenreader, or impossibility to list filenames in both