On Mon, 7 May 2007 22:23:11 +0100, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We had this discussion before. Kernel sources should use utf-8 for > comments where neccessary. Many names cannot be correctly represented in > US ascii, and mangling them is just plain rude. I have to disagree here. It is using the native alphabet for the name which is very rude, because non-native hackers cannot read it. This is true on systems which can display the name correctly, which may come as a surprise to you. I used to receive e-mails from Mr. मयंक जैन at work. Do you know who the heck he is? I sure didn't. Beautiful gliphs though! One peculiar thing I have observed is how all this "UTF-8 in names" nonsense is being pushed by western Europeans. Why? That's because their umlauts are grandfathered in, and because English speakers _can_ read their names approximately, simply by ignoring all the strokes above the letter (or, in Norwegians and Polaks cases, going through the letter). So do not try to pretend that "correctness" has anything to do with your demands. Nowhere the ethnocentrism comes through clearer than in demanding that everyone in the world were able to read names spelled as convenient for you and not for them. -- Pete - 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/
