Ubuntu
adduser package

  1. Bug #23475
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 23475

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

(In reply to comment #1)
> In the current state, linux can only handle ASCII input characters in the
> usernames afaik. If you really want this to change, you need to convince the
> glibc team (and possibly the kernel team).

This sort of thing should work fine in this day and age; as far as I know this
is simply a bug in the configuration frontend.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13938.