Comment 10 for bug 7427

(In reply to comment #8)
> A thought about how to make this less bad in a simple way: if the attempt to
> automatically generate a username produces something that isn't usable, then
> simply don't try to automatically generate the username, and leave it blank.
> This would mean that at least somebody entering "José" as their first name would
> not be presented with the invalid "josé" username. Since ASCII transliteration
> might in some cases be very difficult (consider names in non-Latin scripts),
> this is probably the best we can do until full Unicode usernames are safe
> everywhere.

Done, mitigating this issue:

shadow (1:4.0.3-30.7ubuntu10) hoary; urgency=low

  * Never generate invalid default usernames (part of Ubuntu #668).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:09:13 +0000