""Riho-Rene Ellermaa"" <r.ellermaa@...> wrote in message
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> What a discrimination to users with non-american names. Have to warn them

with big letters in manual.

Does every operating system accept any character to create a name?
I never saw a non-ASCII name in UNIX. Maybe it was simple practice. I never
saw special characters for user names in old IBM and DEC operating systems,
either.

C.
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