Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments | From | David Kågedal <> | Date | Fri, 09 May 2008 14:48:37 +0200 |
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Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes:
> And do we really consider that people's names in *comments* cannot > be converted to pure ASCII ? I'm western european and have always > been against accents in comments (another reason to write comments > in english BTW). Unix and internet have lived without accents for > almost 30 years without anyone really bothering.
That's a ridiculous statement. Just because you didn't bother, you can't assume that the people who were actually affected didn't bother.
I went through large parts of the 1990's under the name "David K}gedal". And I bothered.
And no, the second character in my last name is not an accented a, they have been separate letters for hundreds of years in Sweden. So I can live without using accented letters, as long as I can write Kågedal including the å. :-)
Not that my name appears anywhere in the Linux source, but I still felt the urge to reply...
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