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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/08/12 12:07 PM, Lukas Zapletal
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:13:32PM -0700, Michael McCune wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'd much rather do the following to ensure our yum config values on
the clients are readable and sacrifice i18n in order to do so:
1) use an ASCII label for reops if we are going to really implement
repo renaming
2) force Org (possibly), Env and Repo names to be ASCII
3) Any existing utf-8 data for these values is left alone and users
are warned we do not support this, or we encode it in some way such
that it works
Is renaming environments really worth all this effort? If so, lets
not sacrifice our usability at the client level just to support it.
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+1
I would not say Cliff's recommendation was defeated by UTF-8. The key
for labels is to use ASCII there. Being Czech, I very often see websites
"fixing" my content name into ASCII labels and using them in URLs. Some
websites do this better automatically, some are worse. But the idea
remains the same.
Example for "žluťoučký kůň".
Good translation: "zlutoucky kun".
Bad one: "?lu?ou?k? k??" or "luouk-k" or variations :-)
Unfortunately this can be applied only for characters with UNICODE
normal forms. For example, Chinese can't be translated that easy way and
user would need to put his alphanum label on his own. Penalty for
renaming feature? No, even Chinese admins would like to have nice yum
URLs and repo names.
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My understanding is that this only applies to urls, not
yum-metadata. See my example in reply to Mike's email. <br>
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Forcing ascii-only characters for user-input in a field that
supposed to help users keep track of their stuff in an otherwise
localized application, is a terrible, terrible choice (if not a slap
in user's face). The bottom line for me is if "
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<strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida, 'Lucida
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font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px;
orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); ">You can't please everyone so aim to displease everyone
equally</strong>". <br>
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LZ
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