Re: [bug-gnulib] proper names

[Bruno Haible]

Eric Blake wrote:
> >   $ ptx --version| grep Pinard
> >   Écrit par F. Pinard.
> 
> This one is a translation bug.  coreutils source already has a TRANSLATORS
> note before _("F. Pinard") stating that the translator should use the full
> spelling when ç is available, and since you are showing the output in a
> French locale, it is available.

But only 3 out of 37 coreutils translations got this right (Spanish,
Swedish, Finnish). So it means that relying on the translators to do this
job doesn't really work.

Also in the C locale, without any translator involved, we have:

  $ LC_ALL=C ptx --version | grep Pinard
  Written by F. Pinard.

It could say:

  Written by Francois Pinard.

or

  Written by Franc,ois Pinard.

Which of the two ASCII transliterations he prefers, François will
certainly tell you himself.

Bruno