LWN: Comments on "Fedora board election results"

Fedora board election results

lkundrak — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:37:55 +0000

Come on, Latin1 would do fine for you ;)

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cesarb — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:15:55 +0000

This is one of the pitfalls of being a website with a long history. Most new websites will just use UTF-8 by default everywhere. Things were not as simple last century.

Publishing the source

corbet — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:46:05 +0000

It remains on the list. We made some progress in that direction, actually - went through the code auditing and defending against a potential security issue that I was concerned about, for example. The code is more releasable than it was before.

It's really just a matter of time. As long as we're running flat out just to keep the site going, it's hard to do the work for a code release. But, like I said, we want it to happen. 2011 is not entirely out of the question.

Fedora board election results

jreznik — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:45:15 +0000

I know why I'm not using my name correctly ;-)

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ceplm — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:40:58 +0000

Thanks a lot.

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rahulsundaram — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:39:31 +0000

Been asked before but can't hurt to ask again. Can we get the lwn.net code published? If you are worried about the payment gateway stuff, that can wait.

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corbet — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:37:04 +0000

Sigh. I had actually fixed it properly, but something went weird somewhere. Fixed for real now.

And hey, we're not stuck in US-ASCII - we can do full Latin1! :) UTF8 will happen sometime - trust me, we really want it - but there's a lot that has to happen to get there.

Fedora board election results

ceplm — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:23:24 +0000

Just to save the name of my beautiful colleague ... she is Marcela .... well, I tried but LWN apparently never moved out of blissful ignorance of US-ASCII world. :( Let's try 7bit-free way.

Either TeX:

Marcela Ma\v{s}l\'a\v{n}ov\'a

or HTML entities

Marcela Ma&scaron;lá&ncaron;ová

I would like to invite LWN to this century. It is nice out here!