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A question for the designers, perhaps...
We have a Hypernews system running over here in Chinese.
(no public address yet, very soon though).
My boss has asked if HyperNews can take userids in Chinese. I
told him it would definitely require modifiying the code, but
I didn't know how much modifying would be required. The only
reference I can find in the source which directly touches on
this is member-lib.
If I were to attempt to enable DBCS usernames, I know the
following issues would need to be addressed:
a) Hypernews creates a file for each userid using the same
name as the userid. Thus, we must use a DBCS-ready
filesystem (i.e. Win NT) or we must use an escape-code
system to represent DBCS characters in such locations.
b) Authentication control. ibid, major hacking on our
Apache server.
Are there any other problems that would need to be addressed?
Jeremy
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8-bit HyperNews userids? 
User data generalizations
by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, May 19
