Bug#385085: allow non-US-ASCII characters in the GECOS field

2023-01-10 Thread Alexis PM
In the current stable, the following message which appears to be an error currently is showed. chfn -f "Mr.Högberg" myuser chfn: name with non-ASCII characters: 'Mr.Högberg' In my humble opinion, I think that this type of message should not appear when UTF-8 is currently widely implemented in D

Bug#385085: allow non-US-ASCII characters in the GECOS field

2009-05-23 Thread Nicolas François
tags 385085 notforwarded thanks Remove the forwarded tags, as I'm acting as upstream. This will raise the bug in my list. In addition to my previous mail, I'm also willing to work toward UTF-8 user and group databases (i.e. converting between UTF-8 and locale (and back) the inputs to/from these d

Bug#385085: allow non-US-ASCII characters in the GECOS field

2008-04-17 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, I intend to apply the attached patch to allow non-US-ASCII characters in the GECOS field (when set by chfn; usermod and useradd do not make any verifications) This GECOS field is a set of sub-fields: - name - room number - work phone - home phone - other info Do you think allowing no