Bug 1376060 - [RFE] Transliterate Full name into correct User name in Users Spoke [NEEDINFO]
Summary: [RFE] Transliterate Full name into correct User name in Users Spoke
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-14 14:44 UTC by Vit Ry
Modified: 2019-12-12 14:29 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-12-12 10:12:22 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:
vponcova: needinfo? (Frodox)


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wrong `username` (67.86 KB, image/png)
2016-09-14 14:44 UTC, Vit Ry
no flags Details

Description Vit Ry 2016-09-14 14:44:45 UTC
Created attachment 1200839 [details]
wrong `username`

Description of problem:
Time to time users enter their Full name in local language. 
But anaconda tries to construct username based on fullname, and in this case
there are wrong username (it is allows only Latin characters), so, user should manually change language and enter correct (ASCII-only) username.

I suggest to use some kind of transliteration from local user's language to Latin/english characters, allowed for username.


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Installations of OS
2. Create user
3. Enter Full name on non-english language

Actual results:
Can't proceed installation without manual correcting user name.

Expected results:
Press Done and proceed installation without manual correcting user name.

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Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2019-12-12 01:55:46 UTC
So this is a feature request that makes sense, but I kinda doubt it's the sort of work anaconda team wants or has the resources to maintain. anaconda devs, maybe someone can take a quick look here and if this is not something you think it's feasible to do and maintain, close this as WONTFIX?

Comment 4 Vendula Poncova 2019-12-12 14:29:06 UTC
Hello, I couldn't find a Python library that would provide this functionality and we are not going to implement it. However, the installer could skip the non-ASCII characters or generate an empty string instead of the invalid user name. What do you think?


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