Q: The `print' statement over Unicode

[Jeremy Bowers]

On Sun, 08 May 2005 13:46:22 +0000, John J. Lee wrote:
> I don't mean to put words into François' mouth, but IIRC he managed,
> for example, GNU tar for some time and, while using some kind of
> tracking system "under the covers", didn't impose it on his users.
> 
> IMVHO, that was very nice of him, but I'd be reluctant to attempt to
> enforce this way of working on a hard-working and competent
> contributor to an open source project to which I'm not a core
> contributor myself.

Then I'd honor his consistency of belief, but still consider it impolite
in general, as asking someone to do tons of work overall to save you a bit
is almost always impolite.