----- Original Message ----- > Once upon a time, G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe@xxxxxxxxx> 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). +1! Jaroslav > > -- > Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
