Simone Rota [2007-08-17 22:09]:
Full UTF-8 support comes out of my mind (see our tracker); I lack some knowledge on this matter so I'm not sure if some config option is enough or rather we have to ensure all the ports supports UTF-8 where available.
This isn't as straight forward as I had thought: If you set LESSCHARSET to UTF-8 so it can properly display your files, some man pages will look strange (e.g. the list bullets in prt-get(8)). Jesse pointed me to the fix to that. It's a one-line fix in /etc/man.conf: -NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc -c +NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -c Note that this is the point where you definitely need a UTF-8 capable font, otherwise (again), man pages will look strange in a few places. ... but that doesn't seem to be a guarantee still, since gcc(1) has issues even when displayed with Bitstream Vera or Terminus (which should work I think!) I'll look into it further.
Time permitting, I think merging with Matt's livecd would be great, maybe together with a simple remote install option. We can just leave this out if it turns out too time consuming, I prefer to put out a release sooner than later as you seem to support.
Agreed. Matt has asked for testing of his netinstall ISO for a few times on IRC, but I still didn't give it a shot. Matt, do you want to publish the URLs here so we can get a wider audience to test it? :D
I suggest we write in this thread what we'd like to add to next release, vote / discuss if needed and move the results to the wiki or better to the bug tracker:
- UTF-8 X - Xorg 7.3 X - LiveCD X
Finally, I think we'd benefit from setting an estimated release date / period, i.e. the beginning of october is my guess.
Sounds good to me. - UTF-8 X (level of support might vary) - Xorg 7.3 X - LiveCD X - Netinstall X (if it can be ready by release time) Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?