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

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

FriBidi just appears in the subject, huh?

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Anmar Oueja wrote:

>
> FYI
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> -------- 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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