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Re: bug considering accent marks



David Wright wrote:

> AIUI you really want to avoid using accented characters or any sort
> of composition in your username and password. The reason is that if
> your computer gets set in any unexpected language setting (or unset),
> you might not be able to login at all, and unable to correct things.
> 
> I don't kow much about GUI login screens and whether they take account
> of this at all. But that's just my advice.

I would say you should have at least one account using ASCII chars for the
user and password


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