On Tuesday 28 April 2009 13:06:00 Detlev Zundel wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 April 2009 05:11:01 Detlev Zundel wrote: > >> >> The copies cc-ed to myself come through just fine as utf-8 fwiw. > >> >> Does that imply the denx.de servers convert unicode messages to > >> >> base64? > >> > > >> > This is in the headers of your message: > >> > > >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > >> > > >> > I don't think anything converted anything. It arrived as you sent it. > >> > > >> > You just don't see it. > >> > > >> > The problem for me is that I cannot use standard tools (like grep) on > >> > such messages. > >> > >> Isn't it possible that you un-base64 such mails locally in your mail > >> system? In the long run I'd really like to be able to handle Unicode in > >> U-Boot (sources) and thus also on the mailing list. > >> > >> It is the 2000s after all with people from all over the world > >> contributing to U-Boot and we're limiting ourselves to the english > >> typographic letters :( > > > > i dont think we want localized comments/output without an english > > equivalent. i.e. if someone proposed an optional gettext() kind of thing > > so the output of u-boot were localized, that may make sense. > > Note that I explicitely hinted at the source code. > > > mixing language comments makes it kind of hard for people to > > coordinate/review things as then they'd be required to know multiple > > languages. atm, english is the only thing required (well, and coding > > ability of course). > > I wasn't even thinking about language comments but simply names > especially in git-commit messages.
i have no problem with localized names. i do have a problem with localized comments and source code. > Obviously I'm lucky that I don't have an umlaut in my name, but if I > had, what would I do? currently, like every other person with an umlaut, you use an "e". รถ -> oe. > Resort to latin-1? presumably you mean ISO 8859-1, and in that case, that character set is the same as in unicode (it was designed that way). > What about French, Russian, etc. developers who want to see their "real" > name in the logs? get a new name ! -mike
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