Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I've just orphaned slrn-ja (#182435), jed-ja (#182434) and slang1-ja > (#182433). Can some japanese folks or the maintainers of the regular > packages of these tools check if the -ja variants are still needed? > If not, reassign the bug to ftp.debian.org and retitle it to "Please > remove". If yes, why hasn't japanese support been integrated in the > main packages yet?
For slrn, it has not been integrated because it is a huge, gross patch. I attach some old correspondence about it. It's also likely quite out of date; I notice slrn-ja is at 0.9.6.2-1 to slrn's 0.9.7.4-29. In 0.9.7.2, slrn got fully localized the right way via gettext, although that does not address everything needed for proper Japanese support. BTW, a fully utf-8 capable slrn is slated for release "as soon as slang 2.0 is out". -- see shy jo
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Hi,
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 07:41:19PM -0700,
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I'm the maintainer of slrn. Is there any way that the slrn-ja patch
> could just be added to the stock slrn package, getting rid of the need for
> two packages?
Well, if John E. Davis took the Japanese patch into his original
source, it would be easy to handle it. Because making Japanese
version is just adding -DKANJI option to CFLAGS.
But the Japanese patch is being developed independently.
So the patch comes sometimes long after the original version is released.
I'd appreciate if you could use the Japanese patch and
make a multi-binary package.
You can get The patch from:
http://home.sprintmail.com/~kikutani/slrn.html
(sorry, written in Japanese)
Thank you.
makoto
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On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 08:03:24PM -0700,
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hm, why would I need a multi-binary package? Does adding the patch adversly
> effect people who are not using the japanses features?
I think slrn with the Japanese patch should behave as same as
original slrn unless doing 'set japanese_messages 1' in ~/.slnrrc.
But I'm not sure this. The author of the Japanese patch made
a pretty extention over slrn, such as:
support ISO-8859-X
emacs like line wrapping
GMT to local time
modify mime-encoder to be compliant to RFC2047
mouse click URL to launch browser
support KOI8-R
modify how to display multipart articles
CYGWIN-B20(MINGW32) patch
OS/2 patch
support UTF7 encoding
Pls don't ask me what they are :-)
I'm afraid there might be some side effect.
I forgot to mention about another potential problem.
slrn-ja depends on slang1-ja which is also used by both
jed-ja and mutt-ja. I made slang1-ja so that it can coexist
with original slang1(-dev), ie. the shared lib name is libslang-ja.so
and slang.h is under /usr/include/slang. Does this make it difficult
to make your package ?
makoto
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