Once upon a time, G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe(a)gmail.com> said:
I disagree. This particular problem points out a problem that is
only
going to become more of a problem as the internationalization of
software increases. Not everything is ASCII or English, and not
defensively programming for such cases is short-sighted.
Okay, but I agree with Adam. If somebody wants to add support of UTF-8
(and arbitrary characters that need quoting like an apostrophe) in the
boot loader and all associated tools, the Feature deadline has passed.
There should have been a test plan, fallback, etc.
This is a trivial thing to hold up a whole distribution release (even
test releases), especially when there may be bugs lurking in many
unknown places. Simplify the name for this release, and somebody can
submit a Feature and do proper testing/bug fixing/etc. for a future
release (if and when another name with non ASCII alphanumeric characters
is chosen).
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.