In this age of purported UTF-16 support throughout GNU, it is rather concerning that something so low-level as this does not work. Simply preventing non-ASCII UIDs is a little akin to using Polyfilla on a wall made of dried dung and sticks.
This needs fixed. Heil UTF-16! -- Cannot create a user "håkan" https://launchpad.net/bugs/23475 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs