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 |
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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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