[pkg-ggz-maintainers] Bug#472408: Bug#472408: xadrez-chines: fails to start with POSIX locale

[Yann Dirson]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:59:24PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Yann Dirson:
> > There surely exists a standard way to nicely deal with the case where
> > a character cannot be rendered...
> 

> If you can point to such a standard, we can take it into
> consideration

I'm not sure about a standard, but there are at least technical
solutions to do so using best-effort conversion, such as using konwert
filters:

$ echo touché | konwert iso1-ascii
touche
$ 

> but at the moment I think the implemented behavior is correct.

I'm sorry, but I cannot agree.  It is the 1st application I encounter
which has such a limitation...

I agree, though, that the behaviour of most applications, ie. spitting
UTF8 to terminals not supporting it, is suboptimal.  But for text that
is not essential to the execution of the program, I would not care
(especially when it is run from a window-manager menu !)

Best regards,
-- 
Yann