• From: Denmark
  • Registered: 2004-05-11
  • Posts: 195

Topic: username/password, important addition to descriptions on forms

in lang\en_register.php, I would suggest adding a comment about which characters are allowed, e.g.:

...
'Username info'                =>    'Usernames can be between 2 and 25 characters long. Please use only characters a-z, A-Z and 0-9.',
'Pass info 1'                =>    'Passwords can be between 4 and 16 characters long. Passwords are case sensitive. Please use only characters a-z, A-Z and 0-9.',
...

we've had chinese and russian users, among others, who were confused about this when they were trying to register...

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  • From: Labrador, Canada
  • Registered: 2004-04-09
  • Posts: 68

Re: username/password, important addition to descriptions on forms

Other characters are permitted however, e.g., '?'.

  • From: Denmark
  • Registered: 2004-05-11
  • Posts: 195

Re: username/password, important addition to descriptions on forms

well, whatever characters are permitted then smile ... it should list them.

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  • From: India
  • Registered: 2004-06-03
  • Posts: 435

Re: username/password, important addition to descriptions on forms

Its better to restrict while registering itself... When we add special characters, it will look odd... smile

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  • From: Spain/Germany
  • Registered: 2004-02-27
  • Posts: 107

Re: username/password, important addition to descriptions on forms

I disagree, I have a user named ~¿, lol. Why not? We have different alphabets out there, ¡¿çüèâñ?!.

  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2001-11-02
  • Posts: 9,167

Re: username/password, important addition to descriptions on forms

Usernames are OK as long as they don't

- contain BBCode
- look like an IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
- equal "Guest" or the locale equivalent of guest
- contain a [ or a ] and a " and a '. I.e. (([ or ]) && " && '))

Informing people about that will just confuse them even more.

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  • From: Denmark
  • Registered: 2004-05-11
  • Posts: 195

Re: username/password, important addition to descriptions on forms

you're right, any characters (except the logically illegal ones named by Rickard here) are allowed in usernames - I got this bug report from a user, and it turns out he was talking about the subject, not the username. sorry about the confusion then, there's no problem at all! smile

(feel free to close this thread)

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