On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 7:22 PM Damian McGuckin <[email protected]> wrote: > My few European friends with names which need UTF-8 characters (umlauts) > have for quite a while been spelling the names in a form which avoided the > need for UTF-8. Just a comment.
Valid point. While the decision isn't mine, as I don't have commit privs to the groff tree, I consider it a sign of respect for volunteer contributors to spell their names correctly, even names that can be transliterated to an ASCII approximation. Barriers to reading UTF-8 text files are few in 2026. > variables related to (say) the square of a variable x were written as x > with a UTF-8 suprtscript of 2. I was amazed at how difficult the code was > to read. No, that sounds like a terrible naming scheme. Even though C++ doesn't use ² as a mathematical operator, one's first instinct on reading "y = x² " will be "assign y the square of the variable x," not "assign y the value of a variable named x² ". It's needlessly misleading. "y = x_squared" conveys the same intended info without adding an easily avoidable fake-out.
