[Pkg-shadow-devel] Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

[Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues]

Quoting nick black (2024-11-23 08:48:10)
> You now have glyphs which occupy more than one column. Are your
> columnar/tabular programs prepared for that? ﷽𒁭𒐫i

xfce-terminal renders this like this: https://mister-muffin.de/p/4o2v.png

No idea if this is correct and I'll leave the details to those who know more
about this topic than I. And maybe my email client completely messes this up in
this response of mine.

But my 2 cents on the topic are: Lets please allow more than ascii in
usernames. I find it very uncomfortable every time I have to tell my students
that sorry, you somehow have to manage writing your name using American letters
because that's all we have after half a century of Computers being a thing...

If having this work in Debian can put a bit on pressure on those software
projects that do not support this, then please let that happen so that missing
unicode support becomes more annoying for those pieces of software that are
missing it. For example, if my email client messed this up, then lets fix it.
We cannot find these kind of bugs if we accept translating everybody's given
name to the American alphabet.

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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