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Subject: Re: getpwent, user-full-name and utf-8
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> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:58:08 +0100
> 
> I propose that we bite the bullet, assume a fixed external system
> encoding of utf-8 for such strings, and recode accordingly.

I'd rather assume that usernames are encoded in the locale's encoding,
not necessarily in UTF-8.