Message78906
> By the password database, I mean /etc/passwd or replacements that
> are accessible via getpwnam() and friends. Users are often
> allowed to change things like the GECOS field, and can generally
> stick any old junk in there, regardless of encoding.
I started to patch pwd module to return bytes instead of unicode, but I didn't
finished my work and the lost it :-/ Today, most UNIX uses UTF-8 as the
default charset. About GECOS: is it really used? If you have real problems,
open a new issue as proposed by Martin. |
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2009-01-02 23:58:49 | vstinner | set | recipients:
+ vstinner, loewis, ggenellina, baikie, dedded |
2009-01-02 23:58:49 | vstinner | link | issue3023 messages |
2009-01-02 23:58:48 | vstinner | create | |
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