[tex-live] script for LuaTeX font database updating
Khaled Hosny
khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Feb 26 00:10:10 CET 2010
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:03:01AM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 26 February 2010 Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
> > > > I'd say we shouldn't keep repeating the mistakes of the past just
> > > > because we can't (or unwilling) to fix the old ones.
> > >
> > > I don't think it's a mistake. It was a design decision and the way it
> > > was done is reasonable:
> >
> > I consider a "different behaviour based on executable name" a wrong
> > design decision and hence, IMHO, a mistake.
>
> Then good luck with something like
>
> dos2unix --unix2dos
$ iconv -f "windows-1256" -t "utf-8"
(Just an example of how executable name "hack" is very limited compared
to standard practices).
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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