Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 7, 2000

[Masayuki Hatta <masayuki-h@geocities.co.jp>]

Hi,

I'm the one who submitted Bug#47658.  I still believe it's release-critical.

From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January  7, 2000
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 22:52:56 +1100

hamish> On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:09PM +0300, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
hamish> > I think that all we have to do is to package libc6 version instead of libc5.
hamish> But it appears that the libc5 binaries are the solution to the terrible
hamish> instability problems that we've had in the past.

Yes, as I wrote I know(and knew) the libc5 version is more stable than 
the libc6 one in some aspects, so I suggested our providing both of them.  
Please let people choose.

For us Japanese, using the libc5 version is something like using damned 
keyboards, no keys on it.  We can't use our own language on Navigator for 
searching on the Web or submitting comments or whatever.  It's just terrible.
w3m or lynx is great, but there are a bunch of stupid webpages 
which insists on our using JavaScript ;-)  So they can't be 
complete alternatives.

Any comments from other CJKV people?  I'm sure other multi-byte 
language speakers suffer the same problem of us.

Regards,

--
Masayuki Hatta
University of Tokyo
mhatta@debian.or.jp / mhatta@gnu.org
g920202@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp / masayuki-h@geocities.co.jp