Author: Gabor Szots
Date: 01:40:35 03/08/04
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On March 08, 2004 at 04:18:50, F. Huber wrote: >On March 08, 2004 at 01:53:40, Gabor Szots wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>At last I have succeeded in updating Ruffian. As I suggested earlier, the key to >>success was that NEITHER THE LOGIN NAME NOR THE COMPUTER NAME shall contain >>non-English characters. >> >>A bit of bitterness is involved in this. I use a Windows version IN MY OWN >>LANGUAGE, still I can't log in with my own name if I want to use Ruffian. Nice >>work, Microsoft! >> >>Gábor > >Is it really the fault of Microsoft, if Ruffian´s stupid copy protection code >is full of mistakes and can´t correctly handle international characters?? > >I think, that´s a very strange and unfair statement! >Franz. I apologize if I addressed this to the wrong place. I was really annoyed. I even REINSTALLED WINDOWS before I knew that the machine name can also not contain special characters. It took a whole day to reinstall everything! Yes it was a stupid thing to do, but no one mentioned that the machine name is also involved. I had to find out everything myself (Of course, most of the credit goes to you, Franz, for discovering this user name thing.)! But do all the software have to check for international characters when they get the names via subroutines like GetUserName? Who is responsible? The C library? What the Ruffian installer did wrong is that it trusted the routines that collect names. Is it not so? Gábor
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