On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:31:30AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > When I first tested it with "git log --format=%aS" I had to wonder "who > > the heck is ntnd?". So using only the first-and-last would match the git > > project's practice better, at least. > > And there is also "isalpha() good enough?" question. > > I think we have a few Chinese and Hangul as well as Cyrillic names > in our history, some of them having outside-ascii first letters. > One of the more prolific contributor's initial is ÆAB ;-) Heh, true. In case it was not clear, these were mostly quick-and-dirty patches. I think the right test is probably '!isspace()". -Peff