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by IiydAbITMvJkqKf 1619 days ago
I genuinely can't tell if this is an April Fool's joke that the gnu project forgot to take down, or a serious project.

I use non-iso8859 characters on a regular basis, so this editor is completely useless to me.

>We all have the right to be taught exactly one language that gives full access to the whole human culture and allows each of us to communicate with everybody else.

This makes even the most deranged conspiracy theorist sound lucid.

Edit: tried downloading it; the source tarball is compressed with lzip (instead of the more common gz/bzp2/xz) formats. Lzip is not installed by default on my machine, unlike literally every other decompressor.

This whole thing seems like an act of defiance purely for the sake of defiance.