Re: bug considering accent marks

From	deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: bug considering accent marks
Date	2021-04-11 09:00 +0200
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David Wright wrote:

> AIUI you really want to avoid using accented characters or any sort
> of composition in your username and password. The reason is that if
> your computer gets set in any unexpected language setting (or unset),
> you might not be able to login at all, and unable to correct things.
> 
> I don't kow much about GUI login screens and whether they take account
> of this at all. But that's just my advice.

I would say you should have at least one account using ASCII chars for the
user and password

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bug considering accent marks laurent aerens <laurent.aerens@telenet.be> - 2021-04-11 00:30 +0200
  Re: bug considering accent marks mcgarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2021-04-11 01:20 +0200
    Re: bug considering accent marks David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-11 02:30 +0200
  Re: bug considering accent marks Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-11 02:00 +0200
  Re: bug considering accent marks David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-11 02:20 +0200
    Re: bug considering accent marks deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-04-11 09:00 +0200

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