On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It's not an issue which needs resolving. We can spell your name just
> fine; we just need Pavel to quit whining and join us in the 21st
> century.
I am pretty darn sure my name can be spelled correctly, but can it be
reasonably assured to be printed correctly on a reasonable subset of
systems out there? Considering Linux only -- does our text-mode VGA
console driver make any effort to print an arbitrary UTF-8-encoded text
correctly? What does it do when it runs beyond the limit of 512
characters? And how about serial terminals?
When such issues are resolved and a reasonable subset of people, say 80%,
either have or can make -- without unnecessary hassle -- their systems
working properly in this respect, I can start thinking about using the
correct spelling of my name.
Until then I would rather work on code, sorry. And that is not going to
be any code related to UTF-8 either, but I do encourage anybody who really
cares about it to address any or all issues raised above. :-)
Maciej
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