Bug#401533: MATHML and Indic scripts

[Alexander Sack]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:21:18PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Bug #401533 is now already quite old, and the solution has been
> available for about 9 months now. Why can't it be fixed in Debian?
> 
> At the moment I am engaged in an e-mail/html conversation with an
> Indian mathematician. We need to have systems which can use MATHML
> on both ends, and Indic alphabets on (at least) his end. But there
> are endless problems. I could understand this if there were
> unsurmountable technical problems. But a solution exists, and has
> been implemented (> 9 months ago) in FC6. Why can't Debian use
> this? The reason can't be a technical one. Is there another kind
> of reason? E.g. a political one, of the same type which saddled us
> with names like "iceape"? Please explain...
> 

I didn't look into the bug, but my guess would be that nobody really
investigated how FC6 does resolve this issue and how to adapt that
solution to debian.

If this is all already in the bug, then I don't know ... otherwise
please provide the needed info and I am sure that it will get fixed
for iceweasel et al as well.


 - Alexander

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