On 19 March 2013 08:04, G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/19/2013 02:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Well, look, my point is that sometimes our commitment to 'fixing things
> the right way' appears to verge on bloody masochism.
>
<snip>
> If we have to compromise on just papering it over for Alpha, I mean,
> _fine_. But seriously: sometimes papering it over is just the right
> thing to do.
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.
This is conflating an issue that affects the release name and issues
related to it to internationalisation in general. I see that fixes are
being worked on for this issue, but it also seems it can't be
guaranteed that there are no further problems it will cause right now
and holding up the release for what is basically a triviality seems a
bit silly.
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imalone
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