On 20/05/2010 18:50, Roland Mainz wrote: > tools like Solaris's tools like "useradd" always restricted this to > the ASCII character set while many sites allow (by using their own set > of tools) non-ASCII usernames (e.g. German umlauts are commonly used > on German university sites and some japanese customers have been using > Japanese characters for some time) and other operating systems even > allow a larger set of multibyte characters to be used. > IMO this case should either allow the use of multibyte characters or > expcitly refer to bytes/ASCII characters (see below).
Since there is no way of storing encoding information along with the username, any attempt to use multibyte will result in display issues on multi-locale environments; whether or not this is satisfactory is up to the users in question. The OS should 8 bit clean wrt usernames just as it is for filenames; the same problems exist there. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance bart.smaald...@oracle.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org
