[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

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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