On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Emanuel, commit logs should stay within ASCII, as we cannot be sure
> > about which encoding/locale is on the reader's side (at least until
> > everyone in this world switches to UTF-8).
> 
> Good point. I'm using de_CH.ISO8859-1 for LC_CTYPE. Should we just
> convert ?? to e or leave it blank?

I would suggest that we use common transliterations, e.g. Joerg, Koenig,
Rene, Labbe, etc.  Omitting accented chars completely is wrong IMHO.  Just
think of how would you write French/German/Chinese/etc. name in English,
and use that form.

./danfe
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"

Reply via email to