German umlauts in user ID?

[Thomas Bader]

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Joerg Ziefle schrieb am Mittwoch, den 26. Januar 2000:

Hallo Joerg,

> I recently wondered if it is reasonable to use German umlauts in one's us=
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> ID, as I know of a few mail programs which don't display the UID correct =
in=20
> this case.
> [...]
> What do you think about this?

I would not recommend you this, because some programs cannot handle
umlauts. For example PGP cannot handle umlauts und you get some ugly
escape-codes (e.g. \374) in the output of pgpk.

 Cheers,
 	Thomas
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