fedora release name problem

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Tue Mar 19 13:02:04 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> Once upon a time, G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe at 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).

+1!

Jaroslav

> 
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> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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