Re: Relaxing the restrictions for store item names

["(" <paren@disroot.org>]

MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me> writes:
>> I don't think we should distribute packages that have non-ascii
>> characters in their names. Of course I don't know all keyboards that
>> exist out there, but I don't think you can find a programmer that
>> can't type an ascii character, or a guix user that can't at least type
>> "guix" in their terminal.

This is what I meant :)

> Seems like a good solution for both cases.
> I agree that it would help with searching especially to have the
> non-ascii name in the description. or maybe as alternative translation
> in the name (?). Probably description is the easiest one though.

I believe you can already do this:

  (package (name "foo" ... (properties '((upstream-name . "fôó")))))

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