Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] [Fwd: Re: #308194: tuxpaint: cannot type in russian]

[Ben A. <sy...@sa...>]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 22:49 +0000, John Popplewell wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:14:51PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > I think this will help.
> > 
> This has been fixed in CVS for a while now.
> 
> Testers on X appreciated, a modified executable and SDL.dll for Windows
> is available here:
> 
> http://www.johnnypops.demon.co.uk/tuxpaint-cvs-unicode-test.zip
> 
> A patch for working Unicode support in the Windows version of SDL has
> also been recently accepted,

I can't use a hacked version of SDL for the Debian package.  I'm also
not a Windows user or a Russian user.  Therefore, I'm not really
suitable as a tester.  However, I would still like to get this bug off
the books and see the user's problem resolved.  I'm kind of in a bind,
though, as to how to proceed.  Do I try to get the user involved in
hand-rolling their own package with a hacked SDL?  That's a little
unfriendly.  Or do I join the SDL development effort?  (I am pretty sure
I don't have the time or expertise for that.)  Or is my only option to
just tell the user "well, wait and see -- there's an SDL patch pending
for this, but until it is accepted and enters Debian, all we can do is
wait."  That doesn't feel right either.

Ben