Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:25:55PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 05:08:30PM -0400, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Colin Walters wrote:
> > 
> > > On the local machine, you can also use a CLI that uses a modern graphics
> > > toolkit and thus supports the input system:
> > 
> > When that runs without X, I might listen
> 
> Even worse, I dont care how sophisticated the input system, I would
> personally find it quite impossible to enter the Japanese character for
> 'koji', or any other meaningful chinese/japanese/arabic/hebrew
> characters.

The wierd thing is that to do this you'd type 'k-o-j-i' followed by
hitting the space key a few times until the right character came up.

In other words, this is the same just using the ascii name but (a)
takes longer and (b) not as accessible (in many senses of that word).

Rich.

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