Bug#599197: gnome-orca: Bad display of orca's preferences menu

[Samuel Thibault]

Josselin Mouette, le Thu 18 Nov 2010 14:02:11 +0100, a écrit :
> Le jeudi 18 novembre 2010 à 12:10 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > Josselin Mouette, le Thu 18 Nov 2010 11:08:08 +0100, a écrit :
> > > And seriously, we should stop supporting non-UTF8 locales. It can never
> > > work properly, and that’s why we use UTF8 by default.
> > 
> > But there are a lot of existing non-UTF8 systems in the wild which want
> > to still be working after an upgrade.
> 
> You mean sarge systems?

Which have become Etch systems, then Lenny systems, yes.

> Such a change should be documented in the release notes of course, but
> IMO for wheezy this should be the end of non-UTF8.

Well, make a poll on debian-devel, I guess you'll get some strong
rejection. Actually, a lot of Debian tools are still unable to handle
UTF-8 stuff.

Samuel