[Fwd]:Out of date Qt makes Indian languages totally unusable in Qt/KDE apps

This confirms a suspected bug in KDE on most Debian installs. 

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 > Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 23:01:09 -0700 (PDT)
 > From: rkrishnan (at) symonds.net
 > Subject: [Fwd: [Debian-in-workers] Out of date Qt makes Indian languages
 >  totally unusable in Qt/KDE apps]
 > 
 > FYI.
 >  - ramakrishnan
 > 
 > 
 > ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
 > Subject: [Debian-in-workers] Out of date Qt makes Indian languages totally
 > unusable in Qt/KDE apps From:    "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar (at) debian.org>
 > Date:    Sat, May 22, 2004 8:26 pm
 > To:      debian-in-workers (at) lists.alioth.debian.org
 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > Package: libqt3c102
 > Version: 3:3.2.3-2
 > Severity: grave
 > 
 > The version of qt3 currently in sarge/sid is broken with regard to Indian
 > language fonts.  This renders KDE entirely unusable for people who want to
 > read/write in Hindi, Bengali etc.  I had long suspected that this had been
 > fixed in a later Qt version.  Today I finally got some time to download
 > and compile Qt 3.3.2 which is the latest I could find on the Trolltech
 > site.  I made .debs from this using the existing debian packaging (minus a
 > couple of patches and apps which didn't work) and installed them along
 > with KDE 3.2.2.  After a restart of KDE, everything began to work
 > perfectly.
 > 
 > So please package Qt 3.3.2 as soon as possible.  If you are unable to do
 > so for some reason, let me know so I can do an NMU.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar (at) debian.org>
 > La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/
 > 
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