Michael Monaghan wrote:

>> The member names have to map onto Solaris login names, because they are 
>> used when you connect via SSH to do a Mercurial or Subversion operation. 
>>   Solaris login names are limited to 8 characters, we have to pass that 
>> restriction through.  There isn't anything we can do about it.
> 
> ok. Thanks for the clarification on that.
> 
> Though I'd be more specific in the description. 'ASCII character' or 
> 'a-zA-Z' rather than just 'character' or 'letter'.

That's a good point, I'm pretty certain it will probably unicode 
characters & digits at the moment, I probably want to tighten up the 
validation checks too

> I think the 'Preferred Language' list should be expanded.
> It should include a lot more languages [even if there's little chance of 
> the site, or *solaris ever fully supporting them.]
> It'd be very interesting to know the range of languages used in the 
> community, and might help focus future localization efforts.

The preferred language is the same as the list of country portals, we 
don't want people to have to play Russian Roulette to get a language 
that we actually provide content for.

> Also, I think Australian can be removed from the list.

It's for i18n/l11n testing.  Have you tried selecting it, saving the 
account & reloading the page?

> btw/fyi - The field labels & drop down text might expand when translated 
> - might skew the table.

Yeah, but there's not much I can do until I have the translations.  As I 
said, the emphasis in this phase is the functionality, the L&F is 
something that will need more work.

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Alan Burlison
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