[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#385085: allow non-US-ASCII characters in the GECOS field

[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 non-US-ASCII characters might cause issues in other
programs?

I intend to allow non-US-ASCII characters, with a warning, for the name,
room number, and other info fields.

For phone numbers, do you know if they are sometimes written using
Hindu-Arabic digits?

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral
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