Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 06:37:30 UTC 2008


Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:29 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>>  
>>> Then consider any user in non-latin1 locale. For example, my locale 
>>> is Russian. I have no "é" on my keyboard...
>>>
>>> Well, I can use cut and paste, when I have a mouse and the text is 
>>> already shown on my desktop.
>>> But what I have to do, when use just the cmdline interface? IOW, 
>>> without any GUI -- just the Linux console, or remote ssh session? How 
>>> can I fill the "é" character then?
>>>     
>>
>> You use the compose key like most the world has been using for a long
>> time. 
>> System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard -> Layout -> Layout
>> Options -> Compose Key Position.
>>   
> 
> But I have no "Compose Key Position", as well as no "Layout Options", no 
> "Layout", no "Keyboard", no "Hardware", no "Preference", and no 
> "System".  Guess why?
> 
> I am at the Linux console in a server room, and have no any GUI 
> interface at all. Or I am in the ssh client throw my slow phone line, 
> and am trying to operate on a file by some coreutils' utilities. And so 
> one...
> 
> When some guys will add to Fedora some Japanese- Russian- Greek- etc. 
> -named packages,  what you have to do with them? Switch each time 
> between some virtual keyboards? But if your server has no any GUI? Or 
> you want to cause users always add pure GUI to ANY machine?
> 
> 
You may not like this answer (I don't know if I like it either) but I'm 
going to post it because it's important to know that you can operate on 
these filenames from the command line::

$ touch $'\303\261'
$ ls
ñ
$ LANG=C ls -b
\303\261
$ echo 'hi there' > $'\303\261'
$ cat $'\303\261'
hi there

-Toshio

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