Re: [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 23, 2019, 10:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20190823101508.GJ20404@szeder.dev>
In-Reply-To: <CAGV3M54LVwHMkXd=wB3tQ_h4K0bJOZ43TxXZ8Fh5ZKfATBS57g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:35:48AM +0200, Giuseppe Crinò wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:29 AM SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If we go down this route, then someone might want to write ő as o" or
> > ű as u", which still supposed to be used in pairs, but what if someone
> > wants to write ä as a:, ö as o:, ü as u:, ç as "c,", ş as "s,", etc.
> 
> I don't know any language that uses ő or ű so I can't tell but it's
> definitely possible.

The Hungarian alphabet has both, and I've seen them written like this on old typewritten documents. But that was decades ago, nowadays they are either written properly as ő and ű, or without any accent at all (banks...).

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> In my country, sometimes the last name ends with
> an accented letter (mine ends with an "o grave") and people end up use
> a single quote to avoid pissing off computers. That's standard thing.
> 
> In my current team I don't know enough of the setup of my colleagues
> (they may use CP1252) and that ò may be badly decoded.