Hi Gary,

Gary Brown <[email protected]>
writes:

> Re: [slurm-dev] Re: Incorrect handling of non-ASCII characters 
>
> Another option is to use the alternative spelling of Schroedinger, which is
> perfectly acceptable German.

<rant>
Personally I don't think it is acceptable - and I think that here in
Germany in most contexts it would be considered strange to replace
umlauts.  It might be OK in the area of HPC, but only because
expectations of user-friendliness are quite low.

In my view we are decades beyond the point where restricting characters
to those available in the 7bit ASCII set is acceptable.  Just image
Italian had become the dominant language in the USA instead of English -
Slurm might think your name is "Gari Brovvn".

In fact, I would prefer incorrect justification with umlauts to correct
justification without umlauts.
</rant>

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Cheers,

Loris

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Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email [email protected]

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