fedora release name problem

[Sérgio Basto]

On Qui, 2013-03-28 at 21:22 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: 
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Of course not, but that's kinda different. In the one case, the long
> > slip bought us an entirely rewritten installer. In this case, any
> > potential slip buys us...a prettified release name. Gee, willikers,
> > watch me trying to restrain my excitement.
> 
> In any case, what this teaches us is that release names are not "harmless 
> fun" as the fans of continuing with release names have repeatedly claimed. 
> This pointless "fun" has a real cost. In this case, it actually PREVENTED 
> SYSTEMS FROM BOOTING! And once this got worked around, we're still wasting 
> time trying to fix issues with non-ASCII characters in the release name. Not 
> to mention all the time wasted discussing the nonsense.
> 
> Let's drop release names NOW (ideally immediately, before the F19 release)! 
> The harmFUL "fun" is not worth the harm it causes.
> 
> If some tools expect a release name, just use Nineteen as the release name.

I agree with you , some tool are design to work with ASCII as in
nineties and don't see any advantage of release name becomes UTF-8
strings. 


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Sérgio M. B.