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Re: Latin-1 in ChangeLogs was: Re: [gfortran, PR 18540] A few statement label cleanups
Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> On 2006-01-18, at 23:10, Tobias Schlüter wrote:
>>The following is thus irrelevant, but let me nonetheless point out
>>that
>>non-latin1 letters make it impossible to type names on an arbitrary
>>keyboard,
>>whereas in the case of latin1 you simply drop the diacritical
>>symbols if you
>>don't find the letter on your keyboard (ü->u, ç->c etc.), making
>>the latter
>>much easier to handle for everybody. (Of course, the same argument
>>would also
>>rule out the German letter 'ß', let's just hope that it doesn't
>>appear in
>>anybody's name.)
>
>
> You realize that vast areas of the earth are inhabited by people
> who consider impaired writing of their names as personal offense?
> And drop the ugly dot's above the u in your e-mail address please!
1) So you expect me to insult myself?
2) You can see the dots, so what is your problem?
3) This whole discussion is off-topic, and you would have to discuss this with RMS
Take your flamebait elsewhere,
regards,
- Tobi