Comment 3 for bug 20805

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7427.
>
> Colin, I think the problem isn't in passwd. When I say "real username", I want
> to say "full name". Your full name is "Colin Watson", but your username is (say)
> "cjwatson".
>
> The problem appears when the user type an accented vocal in the full name, when
> the installer ask him for it (for example, my fullname is "Ricardo Pérez López",
> with accented vocals, and my username is "ricardo"). That is why I put
> "debian-installer" in the bugreport's "Package" field.

The passwd package's config script is used by the installer to display these
questions. 'debian-installer' is generally just a catch-all until somebody like
me who knows the installer can assign the bug to the correct installer component.

> I think bug #7427 talks about accented vocals in the "username", not in the "full
> name". I think we're talking about two different problems.

Bug #7427 talks about both, and in my opinion it is essentially the same
fundamental issue; my investigations suggest that there may be a problem with
UTF-8 input in the installer's newt frontend, although the exact source of the
problem remains somewhat unclear and difficult to track down precisely.

With respect, I will mark this bug as a duplicate again. I do think that the
issue is essentially the same.