SPECS: fortunes-pl.spec - add todo

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz ankry at green.mif.pg.gda.pl
Sun Jan 6 20:57:57 CET 2008


Bartosz Taudul wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 07:05:14PM +0100, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> > > > - uses ISO-8859-2 charset which is deprecated in specs
> > > Convert README to utf-8, add declaration to templates, problem fixed.
> > READE.en, README.pl, etc. ?
> Nah.
> 
> > > > - puts incomprehensible Polish descriptions as C ones, using characters
> > > >   invalid in us-ascii encoding
> > > Encoding can be fixed by using iconv, and what do you expect to put in C
> > # echo 'że dodać prośby' | iconv -f iso8859-2 -t us-ascii//translit
> > ?e doda? pro?by
> % echo 'że dodać prośby' | iconv -f utf-8 -t us-ascii//translit                                                          
> ze dodac prosby
> 
> > Will you fix transliteration rules in glibc or suggest appropriate pl-en
> > dictionary for these forms?
> iso8859-2 is obsolete.

But necessary for compatibility with older systems.

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