1.8 - How will we cope with shops?

As you know, 1.8 will come soon, and CraftBukkit 1.8 is sure to follow. This could cause a big problem in signshops - especially headowners. How will we cope with this?

No way would a 3 letter name work as we;;
minecraft:skull 1 3 {SkullOwner:"_Ri"}

If that works, it would be very hard for longer names. How will we cope it?

 

If CraftBukkit doesn't fix this, then plugins will.
Vice-versa as well.

 

It will update but might take a long time

 

Why is updating 1.8 gonna be a problem with headshops? >_>

If you're talking about the changing your username thing, coders can just use players UUID instead of their playername. That's most likely how all new ban systems are gonna work too, with UUID instead of playernames (or IP).

 

Like @Arcoz said, the UUID system shouldn't be a problem in general. The heads, that's another story, but it should be easy to fix provided that the Bukkit team provides coders an easy way to get the UUID. But then, actually getting the name... that might be a bit hard. Because, we don't want the welcome message to be:
"Welcome X241-o92j-6hid91-928e to ItsJerryAndHarry!". That would be weird...

 

I don't think it would cause a problem since there most likely is a getName method using UUID. Can't check since I am on phone ._.

 

Signs have limited characters, therefore resulting in certain headshops not able to get heads

 

i like the way you said "@Arcoz"