Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

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From: H. Peter Anvin

Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

Date: Monday, April 28, 2008 - 11:04 pm

Willy Tarreau wrote:
quoted text> 
> And do we really consider that people's names in *comments* cannot
> be converted to pure ASCII ? I'm western european and have always
> been against accents in comments (another reason to write comments
> in english BTW). Unix and internet have lived without accents for
> almost 30 years without anyone really bothering. And now we try to
> put them everywhere (even in domain names, implying big security
> issues) and it causes real annoyances. People's names have not
> changed in 30 years, so I guess that the rules used during this
> time to ASCII-fy the names are still usable.
> 

For some languages, it's considered acceptable, for others it's 
considered major corruption.

	-hpa

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[2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Apr 28, 8:40 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Mon Apr 28, 4:05 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Apr 28, 6:29 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Mon Apr 28, 10:06 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Apr 28, 11:04 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 29, 12:29 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 1:14 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 2:01 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Helge Hafting, (Tue Apr 29, 2:06 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Apr 29, 2:19 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 2:33 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 2:34 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 2:41 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 29, 2:43 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 3:09 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 3:10 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 3:33 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 3:34 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 29, 3:42 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 4:06 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 29, 4:27 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 29, 4:32 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, KOSAKI Motohiro, (Tue Apr 29, 5:18 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Apr 29, 12:31 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Apr 29, 12:33 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 1:05 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Apr 29, 1:09 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Apr 29, 1:18 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 3:12 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 3:15 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 4:05 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Helge Hafting, (Wed Apr 30, 2:15 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Apr 30, 12:22 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Apr 30, 12:42 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alexander E. Patrakov, (Thu May 1, 2:46 am)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu May 1, 1:18 pm)

Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, David Kågedal, (Fri May 9, 5:48 am)


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