From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-26 12:07:57
Daniel James wrote:
> 2008/6/26 Jens Seidel <jensseidel_at_[hidden]>:
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 04:44:11PM +0800, gchen wrote:
>>> Joel de Guzman wrote:
>>>> Ouch. How do you spell Jaakko Järvi in plain ASCII?
>>> I know some languages can use 'ae' to stand for ä, but this
>>> may not be valid for all other languages, so this non-ASCII
>>> character issue seems a little puzzle to solve, to me.
>> Let's ask iconv for a transliteration:
>>
>> echo "Jaakko Järvi" | iconv -t ascii//TRANSLIT
>> Jaakko Jaervi
>
> He uses Jarvi:
>
> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?People/Jaakko_Jarvi
Developers get to choose how they spells their own names:-)
I've pinged Jaakko to be sure it is OK if we go ahead and make the change.
--Beman