Re: rawhide report: 20080929 changes

["Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand inf utfsm cl>]

Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:16:38PM -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> > > New package moe
> > >         A powerful clean text editor
> > The description seems to say that it doesn't support UTF-8, just
> > Latin-X. If that is true, it has no place in (all-UTF) Fedora...

> I just tested it, and it does indeed to horrible things to UTF-8 files. I
> don't know if that means it has no place, but it certainly makes it less
> useful.

File a bug then, please; perhaps suggest removing the package if not
UTFable.

Fedora moved to UTF-8 a while back, which was a large step forward for
i18n; some (legacy) packages don't understand UTF-8 fully (yet?), but for a
new package it is not excusable, IHVHO.

And I was looking at this as a tiny editor that could be included in
e.g. rescue images. Oh, well.
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