Hi, I found that webwml/english/News/weekly/2003/02/index.wml was modified to de-capitalize a surname of a person (well, me).
http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/english/News/weekly/2003/02/index.wml.diff?r1=1.10&r2=1.11&cvsroot=webwml I don't understand why uppercase surname is not accepted. Uppercase surname is widely used in academic world and it is useful to show which part is the surname. Especially, because of some confusion of Japanese (and other east Asian?) way of writing their name in Alphabets transcription (which Osamu Aoki mentioned recently), it is useful to capitalize surname (though it is not used by everyone). Though I am not enthusiastic enough to insist to modify the wml file again, my concern is how my name (and other capitalized names) should be handled when these names are newly written somewhere. My opinion is to respect their own way to write or the expression in the news source. PLEASE DON'T REQUIRE JAPANESE PEOPLE TO UNIFY THE WAY TO WRITE NAMES. Such an argument continues more than 10 years in Japan. Thus, the only realistic solution is never to meddle. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
