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[Karl Fogel <kfogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jamal Fanaian <jamal.fanaian@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>    Of couse, we could *vastly* improve the situation by moving both
>    'merge_names_map' and 'known_canonical_devs' out to a wiki page, and
>    having the script consult that wiki page.  That way anyone could update
>    these things very easily, at any time, without having to land a change
>    in PQM.  But that's also more work to implement.
>
>That is a very interesting idea. I think that would work well, considering the
>page is on the wiki too.

As long as we can handle the non-Roman names, of course.  I'm sure the
wiki software supports Unicode / UTF-8; it's just a matter of making
sure we keep the page encoded right.