Re: RFE: Leafpad UTF16

[Bob Proulx]

Hello Todd,

ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Dear Savannaha,

You have reached the people who take care of the Free Software forge.
There are thousands of projects hosted on Savannah.  We are concerned
with the maintenance of Savannah itself.

> Fedora 35
> leafpad-0.8.18.1-28.fc35.x86_64

You are asking about Leafpad.  We don't know anything about leafpad.
You need to contact the project maintainers for any specific project.

> Fedora says you are the guys to ask for this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037593#c1

Sorry but that is not what Kevin said.  (Hello Kevin!)  What Kevin
said was this:

>> Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2022-01-07 20:48:14 UTC
>> 
>> Well, normally I would ask you to request this of upstream, but... leafpad 
>> hasn't had any development in 12 years, so I'm afraid you are just out of 
>> luck. ;( 
>> 
>> You could try contacting the maintainer: 
>> http://savannah.nongnu.org/users/tarot and see if they are still 
>> alive/willing to do anything here. 
>> 
>> Sorry.

That sounds like very good advice to me.  Please try contacting the
leafpad maintainer referenced.  That's the best course of action.

I will repeat the link that Kevin referenced.  That's the best advice
I would have too.  Send that maintainer a message and see if they
respond.

    https://savannah.nongnu.org/users/tarot

If they don't respond then leafpad is free software so maybe yourself
can pick up patching it as you wish.  Or perhaps you might motivate
another person to add the feature you wish.

> Request for Enhancement: Would you please consider adding UTF16 support to
> my favorite text editor?

Personally I don't understand the need for UTF-16 support if UTF-8
support exists.  Isn't UTF-8 the desired goal for all software?
However I am often not very knowledgeable about localization and
internationalization issues.

Bob