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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: "coding: utf-8" emacs local variable in ChangeLog (?)
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqowzhyt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090103061325.GB31571@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Sat\, 3 Jan 2009 10\:13\:25 +0400")

Hello,

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

> Is that change OK? If yes, an update of gdbint.texi is in order.

FWIW, my name in the Git commit is misspelled.

Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:

> Well, I disagree.  I think it was a mistake.  UTF-8 support is not
> universally available.  I can see why Ludovic wants to have his name
> spelled properly, but he should realize it'll look like "Ludovic
> Court?\203?is" to many people.

Actually I think it would just look weird to relatively few people (most
GNU/Linux distros come with UTF-8 terminals by default, for instance)
but would look OK to others.  Transliteration ought to be avoided as
much as possible IMO.

Thanks,
Ludo'.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-03 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-03  6:14 Joel Brobecker
2009-01-03  9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-03 10:23   ` Mark Kettenis
2009-01-03 12:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-03 23:56       ` Mark Kettenis
2009-01-06 20:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-06 21:26           ` Mark Kettenis
2009-01-06 21:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-06 22:49               ` Mark Kettenis
2009-01-07  4:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-07 10:06                   ` Mark Kettenis
2009-01-07 21:06                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-03 12:35 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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