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akrennmair / newsbeuter

Newsbeuter is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals.
http://www.newsbeuter.org/
MIT License
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Ostensible incompatibility with NetBSD #311

Open Minoru opened 8 years ago

Minoru commented 8 years ago

This is mainly a question to @akrennmair, but anyone knowledgeable in the matter is welcome, as always.

Both README and doc/newsbeuter.txt claim that Newsbeuter doesn't support NetBSD. zechfdf on IRC just brought it to my attention that Newsbeuter is now on pkgsrc.se and seem to be usable under NetBSD. Indeed, he even went on and asked some NetBSD people to check, and they confirmed that Newsbeuter builds and successfully displays non-English text: sz5gcai

So the question is: what are those "limitations of iconv()" mentioned in the docs?

I've looked through manpages for NetBSD 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 and I don't see anything that would prevent Newsbeuter from behaving correctly (and there weren't any changes to the man page in between releases.) My guess is that this has to do with the fact that //TRANSLIT apparently isn't supported, but I don't see that as reason enough to withdraw support.

ak commented 8 years ago

@Minoru, you made wrong assignment. This issue is for @akrennmair. Not for me.

Minoru commented 8 years ago

Oh, shit… And in #307 as well. I apologize for that! ._.