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From: Steve Langasek <vorlon <at> debian.org>
Subject: Bug#386299: ekg2: Plugin/program compilation option mismatch
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general
Date: 2006-09-07 09:46:16 GMT (3 years, 22 weeks, 2 days, 1 hour and 54 minutes ago)
severity 386299 serious
thanks

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:14:55PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:

> Unicode support in ekg2 is highly experimental and not yet supported
> upstream, therefore the debian package is built without UTF-8 support.

> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:56:17PM +0200, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> > Attempting to run ekg2 yields the following:

> Try running it in some iso-8859 locale.

That's not an acceptable answer, given that almost all locales for etch will
be Unicode by default.  This makes the package unreleasable.  Of course, the
package seems to only be in experimental at all, so I don't see why you
would bother to downgrade the bug...

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