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

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

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> From: Alexandra N. Kossovsky <sa...@sa...>
> To: Ben Armstrong <sy...@sa...>,
> 30...@bu...
> Cc: deb...@li...
> Subject: Re: Bug#308194: #308194: tuxpaint: cannot type in russian
> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 00:17:05 +0300
> 
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:55:23PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 18:15 +0300, Alexandra N. Kossovsky wrote:
> > > Tuxpaint does not support Unicode at all. Some Americans think that
> > > supporting unicode is supporting Latin-1 mapping to unicode. Such "unicode
> > > support" does not work for Russians, Greeks and many other people. :-(
> > 
> > I am told that this is fixed in CVS.  However, I am puzzled by John's
> > response:
> > 
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9527943&forum_id=44504
> > 
> > John appears to be saying that his version of SDL is required.  If that
> > is so, I can't package it for Debian.  However, if a Russian user would
> > like to try tuxpaint from CVS (see http://sf.net/projects/tuxpaint) to
> > see if it is any better with the latest SDL in Debian, I would
> > appreciate the help.
> 
> I've just tried CVS tuxpaint on the Sarge and Etch systems. I see the
> behaviour changed. Every time I type a Russian letter, I see a new letter
> on the screen, but it is not the Russian letter. It is ISO-8859-1 letter
> corresponding to the first byte of the unicode value.
> 
> I guess CVS tuxpaint should break ISO-8859-1 (non-ascii) users as well, 
> but I hope it is a step into the right direction :-)
>