Bug#385085: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#385085: passwd: chfn doesn't allow non-US-ASCII characters in the GECOS field

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Piotr Engelking (inkerman42 at gmail.com):
> Package: passwd
> Version: 1:4.0.18.1-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: l10n
> 
> chfn doesn't allow non-US-ASCII characters in the GECOS field:


Tomasz (shadow upstream author), is there a reason for deliberately prevent users to use non
ASCII in the GECOS field?



-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow-devel/attachments/20060829/079d0c23/attachment.pgp