Re: Shadow package translations
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:56:15PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> The shadow package is used during the second stage of Debian
> Installer.
> Thus, having its templates properly translated in all languages
> supported by Debian Installer (will be 23 to 31 languages) is an
> important target.
Speaking of which, there is a line in the package, which offers the
enter the name for the new normal user, which is "Debian User" by
default. I've had a temptation to translate it, but I also know this
would get into the /etc/passwd file, which is not yet UTF-8 ready, as
far as I can tell. At the same time, I could insert a remark about not
using cyrillic in user name to the introduction text, but that's
somehow uncool ;) Is there any clear policy, whether UTF-8 is
allowed/usable in /etc/passwd?
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Nikolai Prokoschenko
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