[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Primary account for single user login

[Henning Schlottmann]

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Tim Starling wrote:
> 
> I think the most important thing is that we don't put any unnecessary 
> conditions on the deployment of SUL. I would like to see it fully deployed 
> before I grow old and die.

I know you put a lot of time into SUL and the foundation invested 
substantial funds, but I am not convinced it is a good idea and should 
be implemented in full.

My most important argument against it is the UTF-8-problem of user 
names. With one global userbase we will have user names in Chinese 
characters at the en-WP, we will have user names that look identical but 
one uses a single cyrillic letter instead of the identical looking latin 
one, and so on.

The first example is unavoidable, the second could be assumed to be 
malicious and the user blocked. But how will you deal with a primary 
user of the zh-WP, with a user name in Chinese characters, who starts to 
edit on en-WP? Other users there will only see question marks or those 
annoying little squares in the history.

Do you have already answers to this problem?

Ciao Henning (global user name: H-stt, home project: de-WP)