Ubuntu
user-setup package

  1. Bug #23475
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 23475

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Håkan Waara (hwaara) wrote :

How does one go about convincing the kernel or glibc about this? Does anyone know for
sure whether this bug lies in the glibc or kernel?

This is not an enhancement by my definition of the word though... the vast majority of
the world's languages use non-ASCII characters, also in names. It's a bug that the
username must be in ASCII if that is the case.