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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:05:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Kozhevnikov <alexkoz@gmail.com>
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Subject: [lojban] Question about Lojbanized Name in Unix/Linux
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coi

Is there an accepted alternative to the comma "," in lojban (like "h" is 
an accepted alternative to the apostrophe "'")?

Background: I've been intending to get into lojban for years, and 
recently when switching from Windows to Linux, I decided I'd put the 
lojbanized version of my name in for my user's "full name". I write my 
name in lojban like so:

.a,lekSANdr.koJEVni,kov.
(I based it on my name's Russian pronunciation, not the American-English 
one.)

So here's the problem: In Unix/Linux, the user info is stored in the 
passwd file, and the full name in particular is stored in the "GECOS" 
field, which uses commas as a separator for its subfields, and (stupidly) 
has no escaping mechanism for the commas.

So if I use the above name, the system ends up showing my name as just 
".a". My current workaround is to use semicolons, which as I understand it 
have no assigned meaning in lojban and should thus be possible to coopt 
without conflicts.

Thoughts?

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