Re: [boost] [inspect] Hall of Shame plus non-ASCII characters

From: dherring_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-06-26 11:41:58

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, joaquin_at_[hidden] wrote:
> Beman Dawes escribió:
>> * A check for non-ASCII characters in source files has been added by
>> Marshall Clow. It is picking up non-ASCII characters in people's names
>> in copyright messages; that's why Boost multi-index looks so bad in the
>> report. We need to come up with preferred approach for those with
>> non-ASCII characters in their names.
>>
>
> I think the options are:
...
> 2. Supress all diacritical marks:
>
>  Joaquín M López Muñoz --> Joaquin M Lopez Munoz
>
> 3. Encode with HTML entities:
>
>  Joaquín M López Muñoz --> Joaquín M López Muñoz

4. Use standard LaTeX encodings:

Joaquín M López Muñoz --> Joaqu\'\in M L\'opez Mu\~noz
or (as if the babel package were enabled) Joaqu'in M L'opez Mu~noz

See http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
section 2.4.8, Accents and Special Characters

This seems both precise and mostly readable.

- Daniel