Re: The disappointment with Linux and GNU based OSs packaging systems

From: Victor Nazarov (vviruss_at_mail.ru)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:31:49 +0400

Sybren Stuvel wrote:

> If you need more characters than fit in a single codepage, use Unicode.
> That's what it's for. I'm using Unicode on all my computers, websites,
> emails, etc. and it works like a charm.
> I don't know about the UTF8 support of RedHat and Debian. I'm using
> Gentoo, and I can tell you the UTF8 support is quite good.
Do you frequently use some other characters rater than ascii subset of
utf8? Maybe you are right, but i need a great update of my pretty woody
to support it :-(.

> Which is another reason I'm so happy about Gentoo. Looks like it's a
> distribution for you too ;-)
>
Do you think it's impossible to provide good binary packaging system?

vir

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