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The solution is super easy. Just use Mikolaj instead of Mikołaj as your username. Problem solved. Polish people often do that, especially in SMS communication.
by cynicalsecurity 2y ago
The solution is super easy. Just use Mikolaj instead of Mikołaj as your username. Problem solved.
Polish people often do that, especially in SMS communication. It's not offensive or anything.
Yes, the world is not perfect and unicode is still not widely supported everywhere. It's a bummer, but here we are.
- where-group-by 2y agoAs another Pole I have to agree. Using anything but ASCII is setting up yourself to have to deal with this kind of issues at some point. JB might or might not fix it in the future, but besides them there are still going to be tens of different pieces of software that still fail to do so.
- jakub_g 2y ago> The first idea was to change the username to one that does not contain Polish characters. It turned out that Windows does not rename the user’s folder when changing the username. Manually renaming the folder was not an option. This way I could corrupt my profile in the system. But yeah, I wouldn't ever create a user profile on any OS with a non-ASCII name in the first place. It's a footgun that will get you sooner or later.
- hyperman1 2y agoSuppose: as a Christmas present, every dev switches to a non-ascii home folder in december. The problem is solved next year.
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- tracker1 2y agoI'm somewhat amazed at how relatively recent UTF-8 is and how many much more recent software isn't UTF-8 by default. Aside: I still hate that MySQL's "utf8" encoding isn't.