From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:04:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4816BA88.8050507@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429050605.GA27875@1wt.eu>
Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> 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. And now we try to
> put them everywhere (even in domain names, implying big security
> issues) and it causes real annoyances. People's names have not
> changed in 30 years, so I guess that the rules used during this
> time to ASCII-fy the names are still usable.
>
For some languages, it's considered acceptable, for others it's
considered major corruption.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 15:40 [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments Adrian Bunk
2008-04-28 23:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 1:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 5:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 6:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-29 7:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 8:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 9:06 ` Helge Hafting
2008-04-29 9:33 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 10:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 10:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 10:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 10:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 22:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 23:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-01 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-01 9:46 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2008-04-29 19:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 10:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 11:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 11:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 11:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 20:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-30 9:15 ` Helge Hafting
2008-04-30 19:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-30 19:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 9:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 19:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 20:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 20:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-09 12:48 ` David Kågedal
2008-04-29 9:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 9:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-29 9:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 9:41 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 12:18 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-30 0:08 Samuel Thibault
2008-04-30 3:38 ` Chris Adams
2008-04-30 9:38 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-04-30 19:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-30 19:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-03 23:50 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-05-04 8:55 ` Willy Tarreau
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