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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 25 19:43:24 +0000 2008 ------- I feel RFC 1178 "Choosing a name for your computer" is a good reference. RFC 2181 is about domain names not hostnames. Anyhow - it's not about RFCs we are talking but that it is never a good idea to chose a computer name that consists of anything other than alphanumeric plus hyphens. >From a users point of view RFCs are not of interest. Users do not want to know why things work or not - they should work - period. So far you're right. That Vista creates such computer names is one thing that enforces users to work in a Vista only network along with f.e. NT-Domain names are case sensitive whereas in XP and previous Windows they where case insensitive. I don't want to comment on this. As I said the check for "correct" hostnames is done in a platform independent part of the code (tools/source/fsys/urlobj.cxx). Changing the defined behaviour would result in side effects - a change would come along with a high risk and effort to ensure nothing is broken. If there's really an admin that allows or creates "non-standard" hostnames for computers in the network...fire the admin. F.e. you'll never get those hostnames integrated into a heterogene network. So maybe we're talking about a home network or SO network. Yes, here you might be right (especially for Vista only networks) as long as OOo is the only Non-Microsoft software used for network access. So what I want to say is: Do you think that there's a significant number of users that actually share their documents over a network and use localized computer names and never got a problem except when using OOo ? Or - would you chose a computer name with special characters in your own network ? Where are the hearts we can win by fixing this ? So far I feel the risk and the effort are not worth the outcome - that's the point why I said "WONTFIX". It's always a question of priority and so far there are more important things to do. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
