[Bug 1103080] Re: [ubiquity] Allow to set user name and host name in cyrillic

[Colin Watson]

Are we quite certain this doesn't cause other problems?  We deliberately
stuck to ASCII because anything more general can cause problems with
local-network-type services - things like NIS and Samba.

There is certainly no reason to allow just ASCII and Cyrillic and
nothing else; it should be ASCII or a rather more complete Unicode
range.  But I'm sceptical because I suspect this will trigger bugs
elsewhere.  If we do anything like this, it should be accompanied with
some kind of UI warning that using non-ASCII characters may cause
compatibility issues.

** Project changed: ubiquity => ubiquity (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  [ubiquity] Allow to set user name and host name in cyrillic

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubiquity allows users to set computer name and user name using letters
  and numbers. Unfortunately, Ubiquity refuses to recognise cyrillic
  letters so it is impossible to have cyrillic user name and host name
  from the start.

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