On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:08:43PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> At present cron parses the command simply by reading everything up
> to the end of the line ('\n'), char by char (in the C type sense of
> 'char'). Is there a guarantee that byte value representing '\n' won't
> show up in the sequen
Raul, thanks for clarifications. One last detail:
On 01-Jun-01, 15:39 (CDT), Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For programs with no relevant text manipulation facilities (cron and
> crontab), it's sufficient that UTF-8 is not mutilated. [UTF-8 is
> designed, remember, to be represented in
On 30-May-01, 22:25 (CDT), Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - Making sure everything works with UTF-8 charset
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:38:32PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> Does this mean, for example, that cron and crontab would have to be
> recoded to support wide or mult
On 30-May-01, 22:25 (CDT), Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:11:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:11:20PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> > > I think Debian should start to move into using UTF-8 by default
> > > everywh
I second the amended proposal.
I include a sort-of template for dh_make to help implementing it.
It may really save time to autobuilders, since more and more packages use
complex text-processing softwares to render theirs documentations, and this
often means several packages to be installed befor
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:35:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:19:53PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > > "Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Robbe> For one, it is unnecessary, and wastes time. But more
> > Robbe> importantly, the
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:00:34PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 01, Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Most people (with the possible exception of part of the CJK
> >> community) do not want to use unicode yet, deal with it.
> >
> >Excuse me? "With the possible exception of t
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:07:59PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 01, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >[*] I'd like to type naive properly, with i-diaeresis, but I just cannot,
> >since it is not in ISO-8859-2 encoding my console is switched to
> I'm not arguing about this. I
Marco d'Itri (2001-06-01 14:00:34 +0200) :
> On Jun 01, Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Excuse me? "With the possible exception of the CJK community"? What
> >about people speaking (and writing/typing) Arabic, Hebrew, Greek,
> >Russian and whatnot?
> I don't know about Arabic and
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 01, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Nice things these general tendencies... in my country we still have problems
> >using ISO 8859-2 because Windows 1250 has polluted everything. Adding
> >another one to the pile
On Jun 01, Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Most people (with the possible exception of part of the CJK
>> community) do not want to use unicode yet, deal with it.
>
>Excuse me? "With the possible exception of the CJK community"? What
>about people speaking (and writing/typing) Arab
On Jun 01, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[*] I'd like to type naive properly, with i-diaeresis, but I just cannot,
>since it is not in ISO-8859-2 encoding my console is switched to
I'm not arguing about this. I agree that in a perfect world everybody
would be using unicode, encoded
On Jun 01, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Nice things these general tendencies... in my country we still have problems
>using ISO 8859-2 because Windows 1250 has polluted everything. Adding
>another one to the pile is likely to screw things up even more.
This is the reason we can't ju
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:09:28PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:58:37PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
...
>
> > There has to be an end to this.
>
> Yes, but I doubt we are going to be able to put an end to it.
At least in Debian, we can try
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:58:37PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > > Maintainers are being encouradged to use UTF-8, having in mind the general
> > > tendency toward unified character encoding.
> >
> > Nice things these general tendencies... in my country we still have problems
> > using ISO 885
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:31:12PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:17:43PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > Maintainers are being encouradged to use UTF-8, having in mind the general
> > tendency toward unified character encoding.
>
> Nice things these general tendencies...
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:31:53AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 01, Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Ask the IETF. They seem to like UTF8 a lot.
> Because it's ASCII-compatible. This is not relevant.
>
> >Ask Linus too. The UTF8 support is in the kernel since, what, 2
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:17:43PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> Maintainers are being encouradged to use UTF-8, having in mind the general
> tendency toward unified character encoding.
Nice things these general tendencies... in my country we still have problems
using ISO 8859-2 because Windows
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:30:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> > I think debconf should use UTF-8 for the templates and recode on the fly.
>
> Well, if you send in a patch, I will consider it.
Probably libc ought to support it (when there is all the i18n stuff
built in
Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > According to POSIX they shouldn't ignore the value in the
> > environment. At least ash seems to get this right:
>
> My reading of the XPG/4 page is that shells are allowed to honor or
> ignore it as they see fit. Therefore, this is a case where my
> proposal triggers. A
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:19:53PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > "Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Robbe> For one, it is unnecessary, and wastes time. But more
> Robbe> importantly, the Hurd has no ld.so.cache, which kills
> Robbe> reason 2 on this platform.
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy
Module name:debian-policy
Changes by: jdg Fri Jun 1 02:40:17 PDT 2001
Modified files:
. : perl-policy.sgml policy.sgml
DebianDoc_SGML/Format: LaTeX.pm
debian : changelog control
Log message:
* Add pack
Marco d'Itri (2001-06-01 03:31:53 +0200) :
> Most people (with the possible exception of part of the CJK
> community) do not want to use unicode yet, deal with it.
Excuse me? "With the possible exception of the CJK community"? What
about people speaking (and writing/typing) Arabic, Hebrew, Gree
Hello,
I'm not a dd, so I can't do this as a formal policy change proposal, but
I've noticed that a bunch of packages use the section 'debian-installer',
which in not listed in the policy as a valid section (in part 2.1.7).
The list of these packages is:
ddetect, dhcp, udpkg, cdebconf, wget-retr
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:31:53AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Most people (with the possible exception of part of the CJK community)
> do not want to use unicode yet, deal with it.
Actually, most people who aren't using a Latin or Cyrillic alphabet
want Unicode. Which is most people, period.
> "Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robbe> For one, it is unnecessary, and wastes time. But more
Robbe> importantly, the Hurd has no ld.so.cache, which kills
Robbe> reason 2 on this platform. Debian GNU/Hurd systems also
Robbe> don't have reason 1, so ther
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