From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757235AbYD2GI3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:08:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754287AbYD2GIU (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:08:20 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34458 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754210AbYD2GIT (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:08:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4816BA88.8050507@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:04:56 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments References: <20080428154023.GU2813@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080428230524.GK8474@1wt.eu> <48167A07.4000305@kernel.org> <20080429050605.GA27875@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: <20080429050605.GA27875@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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