Bug 115079
Summary: | missing JLESSCHARSET support | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Akira TAGOH <tagoh> |
Component: | less | Assignee: | Karsten Hopp <karsten> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | eng-i18n-bugs |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-02-06 12:14:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Akira TAGOH
2004-02-06 11:25:25 UTC
There are several reasons: - those patches have a bad track record, they used to break support for other encodings - there are conflicting copyrights in the japanese patches and less, those patches should have never been added to our package in the first place - FC2 is the testbed for RHEL4 as RHEL4 will inherit from FC2 and its successors. This is where new packaages need to appear first to get some testing. That's why I made the decision to update less to version 381 and drop the ISO 2022 patch. If this means breaking encodings for character sets such as ISO 646 (German) or JIS X 0208:1997 (Japanese), so be it. We (Red Hat) decided to use UTF-8, even if this means that some customers have to swallow the bitter pill. - The japanese patches aren't maintained since 2000. - the old patches don't work with current less versions - porting the patches takes considerable amount of time for porting and testing to be sure that they don't break other locales/encodings - I'm not going to maintain patches for another 5 years (RHEL4) which are already 4 years unmaintained upstream. - we can't keep the old less version due to several UTF-8 bugs. And Red Hat's decision was to use UTF8, not ISO 2022. - FC2 is the place where such incompabilities to older versions can happen - If you want a pager which supports japanese encodings, add a line export PAGER=lv to bashrc or profile I see. these statement is good enough to understand. and it will be a reson which we can't drop lv then :) |