On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 09:16:03PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > These things are ugly, which is why I suppose they haven't caught on > despite being around for decades, but I would guess that this problem > space is such that there are no non-ugly solutions apart from "just > stick to ASCII", which some people find ugly in a different way.
The issue is that we didn't stick to ASCII. You CAN use UTF-8 in user names and it works. > Apologies if I missed someone bringing up and rejecting Punycode in the > previous ~41 messages in this thread. Noone did. It doesn't make sense anyway (and I would not implement this in adduser), because we HAVE UTF-8 and it works. So ther alternatives are really (1) Stick with the current way, having UTF-8 work but keeping it undocumented, hurling any breakage on the user (2) Document UTF-8 as working and consider breakage a bug (3) Forbid UTF-8 Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
