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

[Bjørn Mork]

Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha at debian.org> writes:

> No. I see and type my username hundreds times a day, people use it
> to address me in written and spoken conversations with it, etc.

This is confusing the subject even more.

Are you sure you are talking about usernames?  Or is this email local
parts, chat nicknames and spoken nicks?  If so, then there is no reason
you can't use utf8. Today.  Without changing any username.

It's also possible to modify $PS1 if seeing \u without utf8 is annoying.


Bjørn