Re: [Devel] Recommended mapings: æ->ae, ø->oe, å->aa

[Herman Robak <herman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 14:32, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote:

> Remind: If one of your pupils has to work on another system, on which
> he has no influence, he will get into trouble. If you enforce them to
> use ASCII characters only, they can work on nearly every system, they
> have to. (except japanese :-))

 Actually, the Japanese tend to mandate ASCII characters in
usernames and passwords.  Especially passwords.  Otherwise
it just breaks too often (i.e. sometimes you can't log in!)

 Japanese is a really, really special case, though.  After all
they have four alphabets they use actively; «romanji» (the latin
alphabet) is one of them.


 Handling non-ASCII latin characters in usernames and passwords
is feasible.  E-mail addresses can be handled by aliases.  That
would be completely transparent internally.
 But the users can't simply tell their mail alias to friends
outside the school, and expect that address to work.  E-mail
isn't 8-bit clean.

-- 
 Herman Robak