[ubiquity] Allow to set user name and host name in cyrillic

[skybon]

Ubiquity allows users to set computer name and user name using letters and numbers. Unfortunately, Ubiquity refuses to recognise cyrillic letters so it is impossible to have cyrillic user name and host name from the start.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Are we quite certain this doesn't cause other problems? We deliberately stuck to ASCII because anything more general can cause problems with local-network-type services - things like NIS and Samba.

There is certainly no reason to allow just ASCII and Cyrillic and nothing else; it should be ASCII or a rather more complete Unicode range. But I'm sceptical because I suspect this will trigger bugs elsewhere. If we do anything like this, it should be accompanied with some kind of UI warning that using non-ASCII characters may cause compatibility issues.

[skybon (skybon-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Colin, I agree that it might not be that simple. But we should still give end users this option, with a warning of course. Those who risk it (not an average user anyways) will help the Unicode transition effort. :)

For me it is pretty strange that Windows allows me to use Unicode user and host names while technologically advanced Linux does not. :(

[skybon (skybon-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

P.S. It should be accompanied by a warning like the one of when you place your root partition and refuse to have it formatted.

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