Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:43:52 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/fusefs-ext4fuse Makefile
Message-ID:  <20120227104352.GA35844@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120227110516.231dc5be.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201202270938.q1R9cvJt062910@repoman.freebsd.org> <20120227094727.GA28468@FreeBSD.org> <20120227110516.231dc5be.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.ORG> 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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20120227104352.GA35844>