Hi Marc, Marc Haber, on 2024-11-22: > I might be naive here , but I don't have much experience with non-ascii > names since I have the privilege of being fluent in two languages that > use the latin alphabet.
I am not sure whether I am the intended audience here, because my name is almost Ascii based. That being said, I happen to have one weird enough latin based character as the first letter in my first name, that it gives interesting results when thrown toward random databases. Thus I do happen to have some thoughts about this topic. > On the other side, wouldnt it be a courtesy to allow people having a > name that needs transcription to be written in latin to use their name > in the real alphabet that it is usually written in as a login name as > well? To make things worse, transcriptions are often ambigious. > > I would like to hear the opinion of people who would be affected by this > change. I tried to consider what it would take to have an émollier or an Émollier login, and there is one little blocker : I may have to login from environments or keyboards lacking the necessary i18n and l10n capabilities to transcribe the 'e' acute, let alone the uppercase 'e' acute. For example, I hit this particular issue when populating the Gecos field from the Debian installer environment: if I choose a Qwerty US configuration but miss the step to choose which Qwerty US internationalized variant I want to use, then I don't get to type uppercase 'e' acute, but there are many other situations unrelated to d-i or even Debian where I run into that. For this practical reason, I tend to feel better about keeping a full Ascii login name. I wouldn't feel strongly if unicode support for login never happens. I believe however that the Gecos is the right place to store the properly typed-in person name, because it is a "presented" name that hasn't the technical coupling that the login name has, and I would probably have stronger feelings if it were to not have unicode support. You probably want to have some more thoughts, especially from people with entirely non latin character names. Having a latin name, I accomodate perhaps too well of a full Ascii login. Have a nice day, :) -- .''`. Étienne Mollier <emoll...@debian.org> : :' : pgp: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da `. `' sent from /dev/pts/1, please excuse my verbosity `-
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