readline update?

[Ralf Corsepius]

Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> Quoting "Ralf Corsepius" <rc040203 at freenet.de>:
> 
>> drago01 wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203 at freenet.de> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
>>>>> A possible replacement is the editline library which provides a
>>>>> compatible interface and is licensed under BSD, unfortunately it
>>>>> doesn't handle UTF-8.
>>>> I thought, we banned all non-utf-8 aware packages?
>>>
>>> err .. what?
>> Yes, utf-8 awareness had been a review criterion since the earliest 
>> Fedora days.
> 
> No. What you are thinking of is spec files and rpm filenames (and 
> documentation that is in non-ASCII character set).

No, I am talking about applications and libraries, not about documentation.

>>> no we still have a lot of them...
>> Packages to get rid off ... did somebody say Fedora is "leading edge"?
> 
> Just because a program doesn't support UTF8 doesn't make it broken.
Wrong, it is broken.

> I can state a lot of programs that aren't UTF8 compatible but still
> offer a lot of functionality and are important for daily work.
Most programs automatically are utf8 compatible on Linux and don't need 
further treatment.

Ralf