severity 19503 wishlist
tags 19503 wontfix
close 19503
stop
(triaging old bugs)
Hello,
On 04/01/15 08:53 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 04/01/15 11:14, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Just now I noticed that 'du --version | tail -2' produces here this:
Verkita de Torbjern GRANLUND (Torbjörn Granlund), David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert
kaj Jim Meyering.
whereas I expected it to produce this:
Verkita de Torbjern GRANLUND (Torbjörn Granlund), David MEKENZI (David
MacKenzie), Paŭl EGERT (Paul Eggert)
kaj Ĝim MEJERING (Jim Meyering).
Yes this isn't ideal.
tl;dr I'm thinking of just adding ASCII author names,
and removing using of proper_name.
In 2016 commit eba871cd [1] converted all authors' names
to ASCII characters (following agreement from authors in [2]).
[1]
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=eba871cd3237e8b7dcd9552f544b365934767849
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-11/msg00039.html
As such, closing this request, but discussion can continue by replying
to this thread.
-assaf
