Mike Hearn wrote:
To be frank I think that's Debians problem, or to more accurate the problem of those who insist on using apt-get for everything. If WineHQ provides high quality tested binaries with ICU included, they can use that if they want BiDi.
There will *always* be random distros that have packaging policy that conflicts with Wine, I don't think we should let that dictate our choice of libraries. If we switch to FriBiDi maybe that fixes the Debian case but breaks the Mandrake case, or whatever.
thanks -mike
Just to sum up the IRC discussion with Mike: 1. I use ICU because it's the best we have at the moment. That doesn't revoke my right to hate it. Until I have an alternative (or someone else steps forward to do BiDi on Wine), that's what we are using. 2. Eat the strawberries. 3. Never tell amusing stories around geeks. They will either guess the punchline or find logic errors in the story.
Full IRC logs are available upon request :-)
Shachar