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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
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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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David Kågedal
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