Changeset 3cd5c69 for introduction

Timestamp:

12/29/2005 05:52:18 AM (19 years ago)

Author:

Randy McMurchy <randy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

c151abf

Parents:

4833d1a

Message:

Added a caution note to the MC instructions about the UTF-8 related issues

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@5500 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

introduction

Files:

• important/locale-issues.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/important/locale-issues.xml

@@ -10 +10 @@
 
   <sect1info>
-    <othername>$LastChangedBy:$</othername>
-    <date>$Date:$</date>
+    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
+    <date>$Date$</date>
   </sect1info>
 
@@ -36 +36 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="locale-mc"/></para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
         <para><xref linkend="locale-unzip"/></para>
       </listitem>
 
     </itemizedlist>
+
+    <sect3 id="locale-mc" xreflabel="MC-&mc-version;">
+
+      <title><xref linkend="mc"/></title>
+
+      <para>This package makes the assumption that <quote>characters</quote>
+      and <quote>bytes</quote> are the same thing. This is not true in UTF-8
+      based locales. Due to this assumption <application>MC</application> will
+      incorrectly position characters on the screen. After the cursor is moved
+      a bit the screen becomes totally unreadable, as illustrated on
+      <ulink url="http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/mc-bad.png">this
+      screenshot</ulink> (taken in a ru_RU.UTF-8 locale). Additionally, input
+      of non-ASCII characters in the editor is impossible, even after selecting
+      <quote>Other 8-bit</quote> encoding from the menu.</para>
+
+    </sect3>
 
     <sect3 id="locale-unzip" xreflabel="UnZip-&unzip-version;">

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -46 +46 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[randy] - Added a caution note to the MC instructions
+          about the UTF-8 related issues.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[randy] - Added a caution note to the UnZip instructions
+          about the locale related issues.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[randy] - Added new section 'Locale Related Issues' to Chapter
           2, 'Important Information', thanks to Alexander Patrakov for
-          contributing the text for this page.</para>
+          contributing the text for this page. The page is very incomplete and
+          many more packages with locale related issues will be added.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>