On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Janusz S. Bień wrote: > > Thanks for quick answer. > > I can't reproduce the problem with the version of x-symbol in > unstable/testing (4.43-4).
I am afraid you missed my point. The site-wide installation of x-symbol forces innocent users :-) to change the way how they process their perfectly legal TeX files. They have either edit them to provide x-symbol specific local variables or to use specific locale even if they regularly use a different one. In my opinion this is unacceptable. If there is no quick way out, x-symbol after installation should be disabled by default, and interested users should enable it locally, without affecting others. > > I tried it with emacs21 and LANG=pl_PL. Please try it without changing locale. When testing in a slightly different environment, I get different behaviour for the test: > > If you open the enclosed `alfabet1.tex' file and save it as > > `alfabet2.tex', then you get rubbish in the second file. The new buffer is interpreted and displayed as coded in Latin-1 and GNU Emacs asks for choosing a coding system. This is definitely better but still not acceptable. The following test shows better the danger of installing x-symbol the way it is now: Open `alfabet1.tex', do some minor editing, e.g. add a space on the end of line (or simulate this by C-u M-~) and save the file. You will get rubbish without any warning. To be precise, the file content will be interpreted as Latin-1 and stored in some ISO-2022 coding system using a lot of escape sequences. However, due to the local variable, it will be visited as Latin-2, i.e. without the proper interpretation of the escape sequences. In other words, if a Debian site administrator installes x-symbol without warning all the users, some of them can waste a lot of their work before they realize that the files are not saved correctly (and most of them will don't know how to recover - forcing ctex coding system when visiting garbled files seems to be the first step to go). > The saved file is > identical to the loaded one. Janusz, can you test it? The > package is at: > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/x-symbol/x-symbol_4.43-4_all.deb The new version does not address the problem. Moreover, it produces a lot of warnings during installation. Are they stored somewhere or one can only watch them on the screen? Best regards Janusz -- , dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Na tym koncie czytam i wysylam poczte i wiadomosci offline. On this account I read/post mail/news offline.
