ru = russia The name is probably in Cyrillic. If I may offer a guess, C
On Thursday 04 September 2008, walt wrote: > On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:17:19 +0400, Roman wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I've just decided to try Pan, but it looks like I won't be able to enjoy > > it. The symptoms are as follows: I start Pan, it says "You've launched > > Pan for the first time, blah blah, select a news server.". So I select a > > news server, it loads the group list, but Pan can't read any messages! > > > > And when I close it and reopen it starts the "select a news server" > > routine again. No settings are remembered. > > > > I'm blaming it on the username as a) it's indeed non-Latin > > (Àäìèíèñòðàòîð) and b) when launched as a user with a Latin name > > (postgres) it works fine. And c) I have a history of programs failing > > because of that 8=]. > > > > Fix please? 8=] > > > > Roman > > I know almost nothing about i19n, so let me be the first to offer an > opinion! ;o) > > Your headers hint that you may be from Rumania, and my pan renders > the username Àäìèíèñòðàòîð as glyphs that I think of as mostly > European. I have no idea if that username looks the same to you > as it looks to me, and that's one of the problems with i19n :o( > > Anyway, on to a more practical question: do you know of any news > server that *will* accept that username? If yes, do you know of > a news client that will authenticate properly with that server? > > Any education you can give us may improve pan in the long run, > but probably not tomorrow ;o) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > Pan-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
