On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Murray Cumming wrote: > > Ross Golder wrote: > > > เมื่อ อ. 2006-02-14 เวลา 12:08 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier เขียนว่า: > > > > > >> Upon further reflection, I also believe that 8-char ascii-only > > >> user names are discriminatory in nature and limit the > > >> participation of the GNOME development community greatly to those > > >> who are trained in the English language, and more strictly, the > > >> United States. > > I don't think it's possible to use the shell, cvs, or to do translation > or programming without some knowledge of English. UTF-8 user names would > be nice, but are probably the least of peoples' problems.
And they can make real problem. For example it makes it really hard to do cvs co from a non-UTF8 terminal. --behdad http://behdad.org/ "Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill" -- Dan Bern, "New American Language" _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
