On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:03, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakh...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 03/19/2011 07:53 PM, Aron Xu wrote: >> >> Firstly, I'm looking forward to such an implemention that could work >> well. But I have to say there are so many attempts to deal with GBK and >> UTF-8 detections but none of them do the exactly right thing, wish this >> one helps, :-) > > The primary reason why I felt this to be good was that I have a need for > it in my package: audacious. Audacious upstream (also part of atheme) > uses libguess. We have it disabled in the debian package for now. I > wanted to enable that. Hence I wanted to maintain this package. > Moreover, I am quite good in maintaining shared libs, and I just > completed the packaging fully lintian-clean, with symbols control files, > etc etc. > > So if you feel doubtful about its future in the case of charset > detection, feel free to hand over the ITP to me and I'll get the package > into the NEW queue within a week. > > If not, then just mention that you are willing to continue with your ITP > and I'll point you out to a few sponsors. > > Regards, > > Bilal Akhtar. > > > > -- > Bilal Akhtar - Ubuntu Developer <bilalakh...@ubuntu.com> > IRC nick: cdbs > >
Sorry if my previous mail has lead to some misunderstanding... I just want to leave a comment about my thoughts on charset detection, no other meanings. What I've said might be useful for you (as you are the maintainer of audacious package) is that auto-detection might lead to troubles in some cases. For example there are many GBK/UTF-8 auto-detection algorithms but all of them have the chance to claim the charset is GBK but it is UTF-8 actually. This is bad for people who originally don't have problems with their UTF-8 encoded files (tags) and the poor algorithm might break their hearts. -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=zb8wt9ca9mv4gdhcngokw38kdsmjicdvn8...@mail.gmail.com
