>>> 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,
Unicode characters will be allowed for the 'Real Name' and 'Password' fields, but not for the 'Member name' field - right? That needs to be pure ASCII. > 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. Yep - fair enough. But I think there's value is asking users to choose their preferred language, /and/ interface language. Though that could be overkill for reg. >> 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? Yes, think so, -.. what should I see? >> 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. > btw - Apparently, no two accounts can have the same 'Real Name'. Is that intended? Thanks, ~mm _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
