Re: future of developers list

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:00:13AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> I think another field for native character is a good idea.  However,
> however, why not UTF-8 rather than native character set?  (You mean,
> native expression and you didn't want to talk about character encoding?)

Yes, I didn't mean anything technical.

> I think the current devel/people has the best format -- "surname,
> givenname" for alphabet transliteration expression is what all Japanese
> people agree on. I hope other peoples will also agree on the format.

Yes, but at the same time, it deprives the Japanese from reading their own
name in their own spelling. It's not too different from using ASCII-crippled
Latin 2 names, like many of my compatriots have to use. For example, Alen
Zekulic has an acute on the last letter of his surname, and it's quite
differently pronounced because of that. That is to say, "Zekulic" and
"Zekulić" would be two different names in Croatian. It would be technically
inappropriate to use the high-bit character in Maintainer: fields of
packages, but that still doesn't make it right.

> If we would have another field for native character, I think it is nice
> for devel/people to have both of alphabet expression and native expression
> like devel/website/translation_coordinators .  I think all translated
> pages (devel/people.*.html) should have the same expression.

Perhaps if there's room (if the extra stuff doesn't clutter up the page).

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