Re: Add mail aliases for Carl, Colin, Jan ek, and Pál, for the sake of git shortlog (iss ue 6206057)

[Jean-Charles Malahieude]

Le 13/05/2012 15:24, James disait :
> Hello,
>
> On 13 May 2012 14:06, Jan Nieuwenhuizen<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > > It seems that this document is in the format<given name>  <surname>,
> > > > should be Pál Benkő (unless i'm heavily mistaken).
> > >
> > > and Hungarians happen to put the given name last in the full name.
> > > Unless I am mistaken, this is the same with "Hu Haipeng".
> >
> > Isn't it a convention to use all caps surname/family name for
> > countries/cultures that have the order reversed, ie, keep
> > the ordering everyone likes, but signal reversed ordering using
> > caps
>
> Yes but it looks ugly next to those that don't. At least to my eyes
> and I am not sure what the convention is with diacritics over capital
> letters for other cultures (the 'French' French don't generally
> approve of it but the 'French' Canadians do for instance).

This is because of all those typewriters that came for the other side of 
the ocean. And when the secretaries got "computerized", they did not 
want to change their habits, and it is neither activated by default in 
word processors nor so easy to type it on windows (capslock types 
numbers, you have to make <alt>0201 for an É).
Typographic rules remain to have accented capitals.

Live from France...
Jean-Charles