adduser and user names containing 8 bits chars

[Laurent Bonnaud <bonnaud@irisa.fr>]

Hi,

i'm using the latest adduser package from bo-updates and i found that
it does not accept user names containing 8 bits chars.  I'm talking
about a user's full name (first name + family name), not short name
(login name or home directory name).  I don't know if such names are
supposed to be valid, so i'm asking here before reporting it as a bug.
However such names are very frequent in some countries including
France.  Moreover other programs reading /etc/passwd (for instance
finger) support 8 bits chars, once the file is edited.

What do you think ?

-- 
Laurent.


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