Re: Relaxing the restrictions for store item names

[MSavoritias]

And some people don't have an english keyboard so its harder to type
english characters. Thats not a reason to exclude people in either
direction :)

I was not aware that its not possible to have Unicode characters in
store names but that is a bug to me at the very least (and exclusionary
of course). We should open a bug report and work on fixing the bug.

MSavoritias

"(" <paren@disroot.org> writes:

> Eidvilas Markevičius <markeviciuseidvilas@gmail.com> writes:
>> with a name that contains non-Latin characters in it (e.g.,
>> "Naršytuvas" by Raštija [2]). 
>
> I think we should stick to ASCII characters in package names, since it's
> a bit difficult to type `guix install naršytuvas` for those who don't
> have keyboards with the 'š' character.  You can do it in emacs with
> insert-char or Evil digraphs, but not everyone uses the terminal in
> emacs :)
>
> (In fact, controversial studies show that some people may not even use
> Emacs at all. This observation may well overturn the entirety of known
> physics if proven.)
>
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