Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:42:28PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > UCS4 is not a satisfactory encoding for our needs, unfortunately. > > JIS is not comlpete either, but UCS4 is less. > > Could you provide some examples of characters encoded in

Bug#99933: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Raul Miller
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:29:51PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > I disagree with the idea that special symbols may only be used in > > certain contexts. That's like saying that HTML should only be used > > to describe the structure of a document and not its appearance -- On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 a

Bug#100631: PROPOSAL] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc

2001-06-12 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Steve! You wrote: > + > +The web server should restrict access to the document > +tree so that only clients on the same host can read > +the documents. If the web server does not support such > +access controls, then

Bug#99933: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:29:51PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > I disagree with the idea that special symbols may only be used in > certain contexts. That's like saying that HTML should only be used > to describe the structure of a document and not its appearance -- Which is exactly correct. It

Bug#100631: [PROPOSAL] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc

2001-06-12 Thread Steve Greenland
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.5.0 Severity: wishlist In going over some ancient policy proposals, I came across #23661, which proposed eliminating default http access to /usr/share/doc. The conversation wandered off into the usual "we shouldn't have services remotely accessible by default" d

Bug#99933: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:41:02PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > How can this person tell which kind of boldness is in use? > > mathematical symbols could use different typesetting convention > (see latex) But this should depend on mathematical context, not code point. Or are you suggesting t

Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:42:28PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > UCS4 is not a satisfactory encoding for our needs, unfortunately. > JIS is not comlpete either, but UCS4 is less. Could you provide some examples of characters encoded in JIS but not in UCS4? [a url would be fine, if it's hard to r

Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

2001-06-12 Thread Herbert Xu
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The full description of it is in the logs of bug#35049. It's a bug in libc6-dev which has since been fixed. If you look at the file libc_nonshared.a in slink, you'll find that the offending symbols didn't have the .hidden flag while they do now. > T

Bug#100586: PROPOSAL] Upstream patches should be separated from Debian ones.

2001-06-12 Thread David Martinez CSIC RedIRIS
El Mar 12 Jun 2001 12:57, Wichert Akkerman escribió: > Previously David Martinez CSIC RedIRIS wrote: > > Well, I'd propose to make an addition to Policy and/or NM Guide: > > I propose to ignore this until Adam unveils the dpkg-source he is > working on which will make this point moot.

Bug#100586: PROPOSAL] Upstream patches should be separated from Debian ones.

2001-06-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously David Martinez CSIC RedIRIS wrote: > Well, I'd propose to make an addition to Policy and/or NM Guide: I propose to ignore this until Adam unveils the dpkg-source he is working on which will make this point moot. Wichert. --

Bug#99933: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:41:58AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > > Let's imagine you're composing an html document. What's to prevent > > > you from wrapping a mathematical alphanumeric character with ? > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:41:14AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > that is a different k

Bug#100586: [PROPOSAL] Upstream patches should be separated from Debian ones.

2001-06-12 Thread David Martinez CSIC RedIRIS
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.5.0 Severity: wishlist Hello. If you haven't followed the discussion in debian-devel: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0106/threads.html Quoting Theodore Tso: > One of the reasons why I wasn't particularly happy with Debian a > number of years ago

Bug#99933: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Raul Miller
> > Let's imagine you're composing an html document. What's to prevent > > you from wrapping a mathematical alphanumeric character with ? On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:41:14AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > that is a different kind of "boldness", used to emphasise > bold mathematical symbols are di

Bug#99933: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:38:21AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > And, there is no such letter as > MATHEMATICAL BOLD CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A, since > cyrillic letters are normally not used in mathematic context. Not bold, agreed, but Sha is used for the Shafarevic-Tate group in number theory,

Bug#100472: PROPOSAL] allowing '-' between libraryname and soversion

2001-06-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:29AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.5.5.0 > Severity: wishlist > > Policy wants shared libraries to be in packages of names like libfoo6 > for a libfoo.so.6. However this becomes confusing if the library name > ends in a number so t

Bug#99933: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:07:25AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:38:21AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: ... > > > You can make a text bold, and meaning will remain. If you make a > > mathematical expression all bold, it will have a completely different > > meaning. > > So?

Bug#99933: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Raul Miller
> > > > Also, Unicode does include Fraktur characters. > > > > > > but in mathematical symbols - that is a completely different beast > > > > Please explain why it matters to the reader whether the letter A is > > classifed by the unicode consortium as mathematical [or not]? On Tue, Jun 12, 2001

Bug#99933: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-12 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:48:24PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > > I disagree. The Han Unification issue is more like the difference > > > between the latin and the italic character sets. Yes, many characters > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:20:21PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > No, because la