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Re: fedora release name problem

From:  Chris Adams <cmadams-AT-hiwaay.net>
To:  devel-AT-lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  Re: fedora release name problem
Date:  Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:01:05 -0500
Message-ID:  <20130319130105.GA25872@hiwaay.net>
Archive‑link:  Article

Once upon a time, G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe@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).

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