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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-26 12:19:17

dherring_at_[hidden] wrote:
> 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.

It is OK if a developer wants to do that, we don't have any way to 
change how C++ compilers process text, so there is no that will have the 
desired effect.

--Beman