Re: Tcl-ja/Tk-ja (Re: this all this xxx-jp nonsense (was: Re: ITP: grep-ja))

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@surfchem0.riken.go.jp> writes:

> From: Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com>
> Subject: Re: Tcl-ja/Tk-ja (Re: this all this xxx-jp nonsense (was: Re: ITP:
>  grep-ja))
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 09:51:40 +0000 (GMT)
> 
> > Then file a bug report against tcl-8.2 saying it doesn't support unicode
> > as it should. It may be something as simple as bad compilation flags,
> > but this does *NOT* justifies a package fork.
> > (If we had to fork each buggy package, we'd have about 600 versions of
> > dpkg by now ;).
> 
> I think it is a specification, NOT a bug, of Tcl/Tk 8.2.
> So Debian maintainer is not responsible.
> 
> Yes, it SUPPORTS utf-8. What I need is support of XIM 
> (X Input Method), to input Japanese text in 'text' and 
> 'entry' widgets.  This is not supported yet by Tcl/Tk 8.2.
> I think the future version of Tcl/Tk will support it.
> TILL THEN I need -ja version of Tcl/Tk.

If the -ja patches don't break any non-japanese stuff, then shouldn't
they be added to the main tcl/tk packages?  We really shouldn't have
any -ja packages, unless absolutely necessary.  If the patches don't
break non-ja stuff, then they should be in the main package.  Debian
wants to support all languages out of the box.


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu