-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ross Golder wrote: > เมื่อ อ. 2006-02-14 เวลา 12:08 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier เขียนว่า: > >> Upon further reflection, I also believe that 8-char ascii-only >> user names are discriminatory in nature and limit the >> participation of the GNOME development community greatly to those >> who are trained in the English language, and more strictly, the >> United States. > > How so? In what way does an 8-char ASCII-only user name > discriminate against people, or limit their ability to participate > in the GNOME projects. Please clarify. I was under the impression that many folks in the world are not educated in the use of English. I know I've had problems understanding some of my co-workers when they speak other languages, and I assumed that the reverse is likely true as well. > As far as I am aware, the English language is the 'lingua franca' > of the modern world. To participate in almost any international > project you need to use the English language, and in particular the > roman alphabet to communicate. It is the de-facto way of working. > How often do you see an international delegate wearing a namebadge > that only they can read? Good point. I've heard the English <-> 'lingua franca' thing before, but then.... I don't know French :) > Come to think of it, how often do you see 'Made in China' written > in Chinese? ;) heh heh >> I think that we as a group would do well to remove this >> discriminatory limitation from not only GNOME, but the services >> that we use. I feel that we should move to update any standards >> that explicitly deny non-ASCII character sets, such as UTF8. > > Just because the technology can do it, doesn't mean the humans > involved can (or should have to). Our accounts team consist of > volunteers from several different countries. None of them have any > problem setting up accounts using normal ASCII characters, but I > expect they may have problems if asked to set up login accounts, or > look into problems using login accounts, where they were unable to > even read the login name (and had to continually cut'n'paste all > the time). Well put. Perhaps we should have admins fluent in each language? That's a lot of overhead, though, and I don't know what the cost to benefit ratio is. > My personal POV is that I don't see any big reason why we couldn't > entertain the idea of longer-than-8-char login names within reason > - i.e. to perhaps 12 chars, but I would certainly recommend > against the use of non-ASCII ones. That of course makes me happy regarding my personal issue, and I think you've convinced me that until a request is made for a non-ASCII username, that the subject need not be followed up on. > -- Ross Cheers, C.J. - -- <cjcollier colliertech org> http://cjcollier.livejournal.com/tag/ +1 206 226 5809 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD8sKwbS8rWWzCfqgRAsgSAJ98/6Sn+tuveuSGxLubOarBKYx6iACcD0a1 QF+yCnjqT0CDveZGc366HEg= =ie51 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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