On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > It's not an issue which needs resolving. We can spell your name just > fine; we just need Pavel to quit whining and join us in the 21st > century.
I am pretty darn sure my name can be spelled correctly, but can it be reasonably assured to be printed correctly on a reasonable subset of systems out there? Considering Linux only -- does our text-mode VGA console driver make any effort to print an arbitrary UTF-8-encoded text correctly? What does it do when it runs beyond the limit of 512 characters? And how about serial terminals? When such issues are resolved and a reasonable subset of people, say 80%, either have or can make -- without unnecessary hassle -- their systems working properly in this respect, I can start thinking about using the correct spelling of my name. Until then I would rather work on code, sorry. And that is not going to be any code related to UTF-8 either, but I do encourage anybody who really cares about it to address any or all issues raised above. :-) Maciej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
