Dag wrote: > Minh Nguyen wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM, David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> 2009/8/4 Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> Michael Abshoff has complained before about using non-ASCII characters >>>> in patches. Today, I experienced first-hand why he complained. The >>>> thing is, if a Sage library file contains non-ASCII characters, this >>>> can result in errors or warnings when loading Sage. I recently merged >>>> #5793, which has a patch that contains non-ASCII characters. As a >>>> follow-up to that ticket, I created #6674 >>>> >>>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6674 >>>> >>>> in order to fix that issue. The non-ASCII character issue should be >>>> fixed before releasing Sage 4.1.1. Who would like to volunteer to >>>> review #6674? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards >>>> Minh Van Nguyen >>> >>> I agree non-ASCII characters cause problems. I was intending reviewing >>> it for you, as it is clearly a very trivial fix. However, you have >>> replaced the first letter of the name with the letter 'O'. At least >>> when I view it, it looks more like an 'A' and an 'O'. Clearly it can't >>> be represented accurately, but is an 'A' more appropriate than an 'O'? >> >> It looks like an "O" to me. I referred to this page >> >> http://users.tkk.fi/pat/cliquer.html >> >> which is the homepage of the software in question. > > An O with double dots is definitely not an A. It might be represented as > "Oe" (though I'm open for correction about the usual practice in from > Swedish/Finnish people).
Actually, you are probably talking about different characters! Neither ö or å are in ASCII; the latter one is definitely closer to A :-) (in Norwegian we'd type it as "aa" in ASCII; it wouldn't surprise me if it's the same with Swedish). Dag Sverre --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
