Bug#364638: Invalid characters in short user name need reboot
Quoting 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.
I'm not sure this should actually go to user-setup.
The main reported issue is the "brokeness" of what's displayed and
the bad handling of non ASCII characters.
So, in short, a well known issue, which probably belongs to cdebconf
or newt
Once that issue solved, then we'll be able to actually really check
what user-setup is doing with non ASCII input (not sure that adduser
will accept it for the user real name).
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