-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:40:05AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >[Oded Naveh] >> Log-in seems to be a major problem for young kids, as traditionally >> user names are in lower case ASCI and these are not even printed on >> the keyboard. I tried using Hebrew usernames when I installed >> Debian for my nephew and niece but this didn't work well. (any >> hints?) > >No idea. I strongly recommend using usernames with only lower case >ASCII letters at most 8 characters long, to avoid surprises.
I think that what Oded is pointing out is that when indeed using ASCII minuscles that works well for the system, then the kids cannot locate those characters on the keyboard - because hebrew keyboards do not contain ASCII characters at all. You might be interested in this bugreport discussing parts of this issue (for Ubuntu, but the problem is somewhat generic to Linux and other unices, I believe): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/user-setup/+bug/23475 Kind regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn4GrUACgkQn7DbMsAkQLiiBACePON0QG5B6Z1VVII6tZONy0Qm LyEAoJJ0LGp4DqvXAuvEHUfwNx76Z52u =Pfj2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
