On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:29:41PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > I'd suggest that names always included an ASCII (or perhaps even > > Latin1) transcripction. For example, I've seen lately in d-devel a > > some posts from "Arne Götje (高盛華)". At home, I just see empty > > squares between the brackets; a few hours ago at a friend's I could > > see they were eastern glyphs, because an appropiate font was > > installed. > > Actually, that sounds like a very reasonable idea; names can be in whatever > language (UTF-8 only of course), but must include an ASCII transcription > for "compatibility" purposes. However, "Arne Götje" is not an ASCII transcription. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Human beings rarely imagine a god Debian GNU/Linux | that behaves any better than a branden@debian.org | spoiled child. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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