I ran into a problem setting up an account for my wife with system-config-users.
Her name includes a non-ASCII character (U+00E9). I was able to use the KDE character selector to enter the character, into the "Full Name" text field, but when I pressed the "OK" button, it complained about a non- ASCII character and refused to accept it.
Undaunted, I manually edited /etc/passwd, and everything appears to be working just fine ... except system-config-users that is. Instead of a small E with an acute accent, it shows a capital A with a tilde followed by a copyright symbol. Clearly, it is interpreting the UTF-8 representation of U+00E9 (0xC3 0xA9) as some sort of 8-bit encoding (although I'm not sure what encoding uses 0xA9 to represent a copyright symbol).
I found the following in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74058
Comment #8 indicates that the ASCII-only restriction exists because there's no such thing as a global locale on a UNIX system, and "trying to deal with all these different encodings is just a nightmare."
I don't thing that my wife will care, however.
If everyone uses UTF-8, however, this isn't a problem. So I'd like to hear from anyone who's using a non-UTF-8 locale on Fedora Core 2.
Thanks!
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