package name charsets / fonts

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Wed Mar 19 11:42:47 UTC 2008


Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> nothing-1.0-1.rpm
>> ничто-1.0-1.rpm
>> τιποτα δεν-1.0-1.rpm
>> 没有什么东西-1.0-1.rpm
> 
> For the last two, the glyphs don't display correctly at all in a virtual
> console. Not in Emacs either. In Emacs (and likely due to an incomplete
> font), the last line gives a box for the 4th character.
> 
> A blocker-criterion in my point of view.
> 
> Having to find and set a proper font before being able to display the
> proper glyphs used in [RPM] filenames, reduces usability too much. It
> feels a lot like those bad books, where the translator also translated the
> names of system commands, reserved identifiers, or header names, for example.
Sounds like you see different results for the fourth one. I see:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~timmsy/list-links/rpm.name_glyphs.png

I have no idea howe I could possible type 2 or 3 ?

DaveT.




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