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Likewise. My last name contains a non-ascii character. In ~2009 I started at a company whose admin conveniently set up an account for me on their Ubuntu server.
by jks 2y ago
Likewise. My last name contains a non-ascii character. In ~2009 I started at a company whose admin conveniently set up an account for me on their Ubuntu server... on which no-one could then log in locally because the login manager crashed when trying to display the list of users. I logged in via ssh and changed my name to the nearest ASCII equivalent.
I always feel slightly worried on sites that demand that I give my full legal name (such as the US ESTA form), and then refuse to handle it because it includes "illegal" characters.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoThis has happened to me with passwords containing foreign characters. The system would accept it, but further logons would be impossible. Now I always strip diacritics to be safe.
- jks 2y agoA friend mentioned using control characters in passwords... like ^F and ^B, but not ^C because that's the interrupt character. Feels vaguely risky to me (does ^U empty the line? does ^W delete the last word? does your terminal emulator do some weird encoding like it does for cursor keys?) but if it works, why not?
- jowea 2y agoI suspect I have run into a couple bugs because of password generators putting characters that some backend system cannot process in the password. Halfwish they just did DKWhhjwqjkwqjmHSJKHAIUHQwdmlsadkl instead.
- hughesjj 2y agoI remember in school learning that technically speaking on Unix you could have the backspace character as part of your password too But for the same reason with ^W and ^U I have no idea how you'd implement that in an interactive prompt without escaping
- beardygo 2y agoFull legal name as appears on machine readable zone in your own passport. Allowed characters are A-Z only, see MRZ specifications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport
- Muromec 2y agoWhat's a legal name? It presumes it's somehow different from other ... illegal names. But in which way? Which law has a say?
- beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago"Legal name" is a catch-all term that usually means "approved for use on government issued ID". Are there instances when that's not always the case and some forms of ID (not just, say, an ID card, but also in tax filings, for example) actually have different rules? Amazingly, sometimes yes. But usually that's what it means.
- Muromec 2y agoI get what it could mean but it's jurisdiction bound and doesnt resolve unambigyously, doesnt match mrz and isnt always ascii.
- Dylan16807 2y agoThe name the legal system uses to refer to you.
- Muromec 2y agoLegal system as in court of law? They tend to use more letters than I have in my actual passport (definitely more than fits into mrz) and depending on which court we talk about they also use different alphabets. They also assume certain structure in those nsmes, which differs from one court to another.