On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> (Funny)
> It seems that, along the way, 8-bit ASCII characters (like 'ñ' in my
> surname) are lost. Debian and Ubuntu spell my name properly (as does
> LWN.net), but the MySQL guys [0], Mandrake [1] and Gentoo [2] have
> mispelled it every time. Unfortunately "Pena" means "Pity" in Spanish...
> It seems that this is being done all over the place since a Google search
> for '"javier fernandez-sanguino pena" -peña' turns out 5790 hits (vs.
> 47,900 if you just try "javier fernandez-sanguino peña")
And I also just found out that the typo was introduced by Joey, when he
sent the mysql advisory (DSA 647-1). Sigh. I just fixed it in Debian www's
CVS :-(
Regards
Javier
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