Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan fails to deal with non-Latin usernames (Windows)

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ru = russia
The name is probably in Cyrillic.
If I may offer a guess,

C

On Thursday 04 September 2008, walt wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:17:19 +0400, Roman wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've just decided to try Pan, but it looks like I won't be able to enjoy
> > it. The symptoms are as follows: I start Pan, it says "You've launched
> > Pan for the first time, blah blah, select a news server.". So I select a
> > news server, it loads the group list, but Pan can't read any messages!
> >
> > And when I close it and reopen it starts the "select a news server"
> > routine again. No settings are remembered.
> >
> > I'm blaming it on the username as a) it's indeed non-Latin
> > (Àäìèíèñòðàòîð) and b) when launched as a user with a Latin name
> > (postgres) it works fine. And c) I have a history of programs failing
> > because of that 8=].
> >
> > Fix please? 8=]
> >
> > Roman
>
> I know almost nothing about i19n, so let me be the first to offer an
> opinion! ;o)
>
> Your headers hint that you may be from Rumania, and my pan renders
> the username  Àäìèíèñòðàòîð as glyphs that I think of as mostly
> European.  I have no idea if that username looks the same to you
> as it looks to me, and that's one of the problems with i19n :o(
>
> Anyway, on to a more practical question:  do you know of any news
> server that *will* accept that username?  If yes, do you know of
> a news client that will authenticate properly with that server?
>
> Any education you can give us may improve pan in the long run,
> but probably not tomorrow ;o)
>
>
>
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