On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ryan Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:59:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Pine uppercases _all_ of the login field. So mcdonalds would be MCDONALDS. > > Which isn't much better than Mcdonalds, but might explain people out > > there with all-upcase last names. > > I think that's more of an Asian response to the confusion westerners > have with "family name" vs "given name" and "first name" vs "last name". I'd believe you, except I have this clear memory of it being pretty common in France too. I remember it vividly from the original extfs author: Remy CARD. And I don't think that one was the odd man out. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Sep 20 14:14:29 2005
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