Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

[Dmitry Butskoy]

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.  
>   

Yes. I actually use the compose key! But not for "é" ! Guess why? 
Because I use it for cyrillic (russian) input. And cyrillic (as well ass 
Japan, Hebrew etc.) has no "é" symbol.


~buc