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heavytull
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 Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:00 am Post subject: kdm characters set |
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does anyone knows whether kdm is not limited to ascii characters or not?
if yes then it is not complient with the linux password method. |
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J.O. Aho
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:02 am Post subject: Re: kdm characters set |
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heavytull wrote:
| Quote: | does anyone knows whether kdm is not limited to ascii characters or not?
if yes then it is not complient with the linux password method.
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KDM will use the system char set, put you may run into trouble if you
are using UTF8 for your account and ASCII for your system and you on top
of that use characters that are 128+ and you used to set your new
password while you was logged in to your account.
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noi ance
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:59 pm Post subject: Re: kdm characters set |
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:00:18 +0000, heavytull typed this message:
| Quote: | does anyone knows whether kdm is not limited to ascii characters or not?
if yes then it is not complient with the linux password method.
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No, you can change the character coding but you'll have to translate from
your character encoding to Ascii when working with other systems like
WWW, email, etc.
Best to use a character set that also includes the Ascii base like UTF8
or Latin-1. |
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heavytull
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: Re: kdm characters set |
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:02:42 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:
| Quote: | heavytull wrote:
does anyone knows whether kdm is not limited to ascii characters or
not? if yes then it is not complient with the linux password method.
KDM will use the system char set, put you may run into trouble if you
are using UTF8 for your account and ASCII for your system and you on top
of that use characters that are 128+ and you used to set your new
password while you was logged in to your account.
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I'm running slackware 12.1 with its default kernel. It is compiled with
UTF-8 as the default charset.
so maybe I have to check whether my account is set to use UTF-8, but i
don't know how to check that. |
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heavytull
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: Re: kdm characters set |
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:02:42 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:
| Quote: | heavytull wrote:
does anyone knows whether kdm is not limited to ascii characters or
not? if yes then it is not complient with the linux password method.
KDM will use the system char set, put you may run into trouble if you
are using UTF8 for your account and ASCII for your system and you on top
of that use characters that are 128+ and you used to set your new
password while you was logged in to your account.
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I'm running slackware 12.1 with its default kernel. It is compiled with
UTF-8 as the default charset.
so maybe I have to check whether my account is set to use UTF-8, but i
don't know how to check that. |
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J.O. Aho
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject: Re: kdm characters set |
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heavytull wrote:
| Quote: | On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:02:42 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:
heavytull wrote:
does anyone knows whether kdm is not limited to ascii characters or
not? if yes then it is not complient with the linux password method.
KDM will use the system char set, put you may run into trouble if you
are using UTF8 for your account and ASCII for your system and you on top
of that use characters that are 128+ and you used to set your new
password while you was logged in to your account.
I'm running slackware 12.1 with its default kernel. It is compiled with
UTF-8 as the default charset.
so maybe I have to check whether my account is set to use UTF-8, but i
don't know how to check that.
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Don't confuse the kernels default display of filenames and the systems default
char setup (see your LC_*).
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