Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Mon Mar 17 13:01:04 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:05:45PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 2.	In some cultural contexts transliteration of personal names (if they
> > end up in package titles) is considered rude.
> I consider forcing users to learn to type Chinese, Thai, French
> (arbitrary examples) charsets just to be able to install a package to be
> utterly rude.

How about English fonts - why are those different ? You seem to have a very
inconsistent attitude. As for typing that is a complete red herring. We have
gui tools for a reason and pango is happy doing pointy-clicky things with
other locales.

Alan




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