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

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Date:	Fri, 09 May 2008 14:48:37 +0200
From:	David Kågedal <davidk@...ator.liu.se>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> writes:

> 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. 

That's a ridiculous statement.  Just because you didn't bother, you
can't assume that the people who were actually affected didn't bother.

I went through large parts of the 1990's under the name "David
K}gedal". And I bothered.

And no, the second character in my last name is not an accented a,
they have been separate letters for hundreds of years in Sweden.  So I
can live without using accented letters, as long as I can write
Kågedal including the å. :-)

Not that my name appears anywhere in the Linux source, but I still
felt the urge to reply...

-- 
David Kågedal
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