Re: [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time.

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

* Rafal Luzynski:

> 20.08.2019 19:35 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Clearly such characters should be allowed in the names of committers, for 
>> example.  We have the known and previously discussed bug in the commit 
>> hooks that they mark glibc-cvs messages as text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 
>> even when that's inaccurate, but I think that should be fixed in the 
>> hooks.
>
> I agree, I personally suffer from the same problem.  In fact, I have
> 3 non-ASCII characters in my name but long ago but I replace them with
> ASCII characters even if computers nowadays are able to handle Unicode
> (as we can see, that is not always true).  I would be happy if we could
> allow all Unicode characters, at least extended Latin, my point is that
> probably we have not yet achieved this ability.

Many of us have committed patches with author names which contain
non-ASCII characters.  Using UTF-8 quotation marks in GCC error messages
in commit messages is common, too.  I think the issues we saw with
commit notifications are really minor.

So please feel free to spell your name in the way you want.

Thanks,
Florian