Bug#364638: Invalid characters in short user name need reboot

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

reassign 364638 user-setup
thanks

On Monday 24 April 2006 18:34, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
> - at the prompt for the user account name type in a non-ASCII character
> like 'ä' LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIARESIS into the edit field

This is a know issue, probably caused by the fact that one of the tools 
used to set the username does not understand UTF-8. It is being looked 
into and will hopefully be resolved before the release of Etch.