On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 02:52:23PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-11-16 at 23:41 +0100, Lukas Javorsky wrote:
> > >
> > > I think an upstream only wants to adhere to the language specification
> > > (groff_char(7)). These small differences became prominent with the advent
> > > of
>
On Thu, 2023-11-16 at 23:41 +0100, Lukas Javorsky wrote:
> >
> > I think an upstream only wants to adhere to the language specification
> > (groff_char(7)). These small differences became prominent with the advent
> > of
> > UTF-8 capable terminals. They have always been visible in a PostScript
>
>
> I think an upstream only wants to adhere to the language specification
> (groff_char(7)). These small differences became prominent with the advent
> of
> UTF-8 capable terminals. They have always been visible in a PostScript
> output.
>
> Imagine you are the upstream and a user sends you a bug
V Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 12:11:55PM +0100, Lukas Javorsky napsal(a):
> >
> > Did we try to persuade upstream to revert the problem? But if they're
> > not receptive then a downstream fix aligned with Debian looks right.
> >
>
> I didn't yet. However, if they decided to stop mapping these
>
> Did we try to persuade upstream to revert the problem? But if they're
> not receptive then a downstream fix aligned with Debian looks right.
>
I didn't yet. However, if they decided to stop mapping these characters, I
don't think they would be willing to revert it back. They mentioned the
On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 12:36:19PM +0100, Lukas Javorsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing this email to the Fedora community to give you a heads-up about
> what we are going to do with the new change introduced to the groff 1.23.0
> version [1].
> Upstream of groff stopped mapping the special
On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 12:36:19PM +0100, Lukas Javorsky wrote:
> we've decided to align with the Debian decision and revert this change
I read the article on LWN and parts of the Debian discussion, and I
think this is the right decision.
Zbyszek
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Hi,
I'm writing this email to the Fedora community to give you a heads-up about
what we are going to do with the new change introduced to the groff 1.23.0
version [1].
Upstream of groff stopped mapping the special characters (like hyphens,
tilde, ...) to the Basic Latin codes like it previously
