On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 03:40:19PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > For me, allowing the correct spellings of > > words and the correct names of things to be represented in file names is > > important enough to rise to an ethical goal that I would advocate > > adopting. > > This. Among the examples listed the only one I found convincing was > > Certinomis_-_Autorité_Racine.crt
It might be advantageous for the certification autority to use UTF-8 to encode its name, but the benefit for the user of the system is something entirely different. As long as the user is using UTF-8 locale and the terminal is able to handle the script properly, there might be little harm done. However this does not need to be the case. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130406141934.GD8527@yellowpig
