RE: (howto) adding better support for a specific language
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:40:05AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>> [Oded Naveh]
>>> Log-in seems to be a major problem for young kids, as traditionally
>>> user names are in lower case ASCI and these are not even printed on
>>> the keyboard. I tried using Hebrew usernames when I installed
>>> Debian for my nephew and niece but this didn't work well. (any
>>> hints?)
>>
>> No idea. I strongly recommend using usernames with only lower case
>> ASCII letters at most 8 characters long, to avoid surprises.
>
> I think that what Oded is pointing out is that when indeed using ASCII
> minuscles that works well for the system, then the kids cannot locate
> those characters on the keyboard - because hebrew keyboards do not
> contain ASCII characters at all.
Hebrew keyboards have UPPERCASE ASCII and Hebrew letters, so for
young kids the effect is as you understood.
> You might be interested in this bugreport discussing parts of this
> issue (for Ubuntu, but the problem is somewhat generic to Linux and
> other unices, I believe):
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/user-setup/+bug/23475
Just as expected but good to see it concernes some people.
Thanks, Odd.
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