Hello François,
> > Written by Francois Pinard.
> > Written by Franc,ois Pinard.
>
> >Which of the two ASCII transliterations he prefers, François will
> >certainly tell you himself.
>
> Both are good, I would maybe use the second myself.
Thanks. The way to write your name then with the 'propername' module is
proper_name_utf8 ("Franc,ois Pinard", "Fran\303\247ois Pinard")
> Or even something like:
>
> Written by Fran\xe7ois Pinard
> Written by Fran\u00e7ois Pinard
>
> on the premise that the emitter should ideally never be the one guilty
> of destroying information. For the emitter, any reasonable coding
> should do (yet what is reasonable or not may be much debated). The
> receiver should then manage the way s/he prefers except, of course,
> thinking or stating that the emitter is the source of his/her problem.
While I agree on the principle of loss-less processing for all kinds of
user data, here we're talking about data which comes from the program
itself and therefore does not need to be preserved 100%. Here I think
the major principle is to be user-friendly; in particular avoid to
present hexadecimal numbers to end users. (Not everyone has 8 fingers
on one hand...)
Bruno
