Doesn't the GECOS field already cover some of this use case?

Posted Dec 23, 2024 9:25 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
In reply to: Doesn't the GECOS field already cover some of this use case? by steffen780
Parent article: Debian opens a can of username worms

Optimistically you could consider the problem "solved" by Unicode two decades ago, pessimistically it isn't even fully there yet today (e.g. some popular database products still do or only recently switched to full UTF-8 encodings as the default and did not support anything outside the Unicode BMP in their previous default encoding).

I wouldn't call that "solved it many decades ago".