Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:04:56 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments | |
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
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