[Fwd: Re: NEWT Support for UTF-8 and Fribidi]

[Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

FYI

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: NEWT Support for UTF-8 and Fribidi
Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:07:12 -0600 (CST)
Resent-From: debian-boot at lists dot debian dot org
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:45:28 +0100
From: Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian dot org>
To: debian-boot at lists dot debian dot org
References: <400486FF dot 9090406 at canada dot com>

My answers will probably be far from complete...but others are welcome
to correct my mistakes.

> 1. is Newt UTF-friendly ? and if it is who is the code maintainer ? and 
> is there a mailing list for it. I could not find any

I'm pretty sure it is (UTF friendly), as it perfectly handles
japanese, russian, greek (and Arabic, at least when it comes to UTF-8
encoded characters) stuff.

The newt package is maintained by Alastair.

So, as he is currently away or less active, a NMU may be proposed by
the debian-boot team, if needed.

> 2. is libtextwrap UTF-8 friendly ?

Ask maintainer. http://packages.debian.org/libtextwrap

> 3. Should we have newt lib or should we hack cdebconf/newt.c file ?
>  Most likely we will need to hack newt lib. then were should we start.
>
> 4. is there s CVS we need to check changes in and who should we talk to 
> to give them the patches.

If Alastair has a CVS for newt, it may be on alioth....

IMHO, you should first "apt-get source newt", hack it down as you
need, then propose a patch.

I may help in testing it by manually building ISO images with it along
with complete Arabic translations. I finally managed to be able to
build hand-crafted ISO images.

The most difficult is our 9 hours time lag...:)



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