From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761682AbYEINH7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2008 09:07:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755730AbYEINHt (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2008 09:07:49 -0400 Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se ([130.236.254.3]:33933 "EHLO mail.lysator.liu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755595AbYEINHs (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2008 09:07:48 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1163 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 09:07:48 EDT 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> From: =?utf-8?Q?David_K=C3=A5gedal?= Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 14:48:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080429050605.GA27875@1wt.eu> (Willy Tarreau's message of "Tue\, 29 Apr 2008 07\:06\:05 +0200") Message-ID: <8763tn3aoq.fsf@lysator.liu.se> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Willy Tarreau 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... -- David Kågedal