MV> I said you can use utf-8 in the user.name field and showed you an example But I want to use null or (my favorite string of) ASCII. Anyway no program so far on UNIX broke with just $ grep $USER /etc/passwd jidanni:x:1000:1000:,,,:/home/jidanni:/bin/bash except git. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html