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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Possible need to break string freeze - opinion?
From:       Eugene Onischenko <oneugene () ukr ! net>
Date:       2004-01-12 11:26:23
Message-ID: 20040112112623.GA26218 () sol ! alphadiz ! com
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:37:28PM -0400, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> OK here is the deal. Kopete for some time now has had a bug where non-latin1
>  characters on IRC get corrupted. This is because IRC has no notion of
>  sending locale with the protocol.. this is why clients normally let you
>  choose the codec for the channel on the client side (see XChat, KSIrc,
>  Konversation, etc. )
> 
> Now, I have had a patch for some time that adds this ability to Kopete, but
>  have not committed it because it would break the string freeze.
> 
> Someone on IRC told me that this bug could be considered a showstopper, since
>  it means that most non-English people will be unable to use Kopete IRC,
>  since most people still don't use UTF-8 on IRC.
> 
> So, what I am wondering is a) Does the i18n team consider this bug a
>  showstopper, and b) If so, is it OK for me to break the string freeze with a
>  fix and mail it to you guys ?
> 

I think this is showstopper bug. Without this feature translations will
be useless for many people.

> Thanks.

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