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

At 04:31 AM 3/7/2002 -0400, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:

>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.

At least at DEC, if it wasn't expressible in RAD50, it wasn't
an identifier.



Regards,

Ann
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