Re: [Fwd: Username length limitation]

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:57 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
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> Ross Golder wrote:
> > เมื่อ อ. 2006-02-14 เวลา 12:08 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier เขียนว่า:
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> >> 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.

I don't think it's possible to use the shell, cvs, or to do translation
or programming without some knowledge of English. UTF-8 user names would
be nice, but are probably the least of peoples' problems.

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