>>> 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
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