Re: gnome-terminal & i18n

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 17:57, Zbigniew Chyla wrote:
> I rebuilt the whole GNOME today and now my gnome-terminal is broken again!
> I can't type any non-ascii characters (my locale uses iso-8859-2 encoding).
> The problem is Jacob's change from yesterday:
> 
> 2002-06-03  jacob berkman  <jacob ximian com>
> (...)
>     * revert i18n stuff, seems to have broken some things (committing
>     them to libzvt-i18n branch)
> 
> What is going on? Is GNOME 2.0 intended for use only by Americans?

Well, it caused three unique crashers and completely broke copy and
paste. Had it remained in it would have been intended for use by no one.
Yes, the current situation wrt i18n in terminal sucks. Sucks badly. But
to be perfectly blunt, if it sucked that badly, someone from the i18n
community should have fixed it before last week; as it stands,
submitting a large and broken patch barely a week before a planned
freeze (it was submitted on the 22nd) is not a reliable way to fix bugs.
The author does hope to fix the open issues by 2.0.1 and I hope people
here who are interested in that problem will help him out. The relevant
bug number is 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78007

and I'm sure discussion and useful contributions (preferably of tested
patches) will be very welcome as we get ready for 2.0.1.

Luis