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'.
prev 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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