Re: [dwm] dwm's future

From: Kurt H Maier <karmaflux_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:23:01 -0500

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:08 PM, David E. Thiel
<lx_AT_redundancy.redundancy.org> wrote:
> Agreed. Proven fact: non-English-speaking people exist. Minimalism and
> simplicity shouldn't exclude basic functionality like displaying
> characters in the language the user speaks.

Rendering thousands of different codesets is not "basic
functionality." Proven (in this very thread) fact: nobody has yet
come up with a suckless way to display unicode. If x11's font
rendering is broken, fix it -- don't bloat up client software to work
around it.

# Kurt H Maier
Received on Sun Apr 26 2009 - 19:23:01 UTC

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