Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian
Am 13. Dezember 2024 13:08:01 MEZ schrieb Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@rootsland.net>:
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>I don’t need non-ASCII for my name but I would never use a system that would forces me to rewrite my name in ASCII because it is so utterly broken in 2024. I bet there is no problem on Windows systems.
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> Stephan
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Incidentally, my kid's school rolled out their school laptops this week, which of course come with Windows11 preinstalled (as a sidenote I am now looking forward to four years of "digital competence training" consisting entirely of Windows(basics), PowerPoint, Word and Excel; but that's another story), and *of course* all usernames have been normalized to lowercase ASCII.
so my take is, that "no. In Redmond you would use ASCII for username"
Oh, and my name does have non-ASCII characters, and I have been using Unicode in my display name for the last 20 years.
I do remember problems in the 90ies.
But those are long past.
mfh.her.fsr
IOhannes
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