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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: "Giuseppe Crinò" <giuscri@gmail.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>,
	Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
	Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>,
	Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:15:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190823101508.GJ20404@szeder.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGV3M54LVwHMkXd=wB3tQ_h4K0bJOZ43TxXZ8Fh5ZKfATBS57g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:35:48AM +0200, Giuseppe Crinò wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:29 AM SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If we go down this route, then someone might want to write ő as o" or
> > ű as u", which still supposed to be used in pairs, but what if someone
> > wants to write ä as a:, ö as o:, ü as u:, ç as "c,", ş as "s,", etc.
> 
> I don't know any language that uses ő or ű so I can't tell but it's
> definitely possible.

The Hungarian alphabet has both, and I've seen them written like this
on old typewritten documents.  But that was decades ago, nowadays
they are either written properly as ő and ű, or without any accent at
all (banks...).

> In my country, sometimes the last name ends with
> an accented letter (mine ends with an "o grave") and people end up use
> a single quote to avoid pissing off computers. That's standard thing.
> 
> In my current team I don't know enough of the setup of my colleagues
> (they may use CP1252) and that ò may be badly decoded.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-23 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-22 12:32 [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username Giuseppe Crinò
2019-08-22 15:06 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-08-22 16:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-23  7:20     ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-08-23  7:29       ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-22 16:06 ` René Scharfe
2019-08-22 16:58 ` Bryan Turner
2019-08-22 17:08   ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-22 18:43     ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-08-23  8:29       ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-23  9:35         ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-08-23 10:15           ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2019-08-24 17:49         ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-08-25  8:09           ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-08-26 19:14         ` Jeff King
2019-08-27 13:51           ` Giuseppe Crino'
2019-08-27 14:33             ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-28 14:33           ` Giuseppe Crino'
2019-08-28 14:56             ` Jeff King
2019-08-31 13:17           ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-09-02 15:47             ` Jeff King
2019-09-02 19:25               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-02 19:50                 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-09-03  7:51                   ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-09-03  9:03                     ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-23  8:26     ` SZEDER Gábor

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