Issue With Spaces in Names?

Gillingham

This discussion is related to the Quotes addon.

I believe there might be an issue with quoting and linking to usernames if the username has a space. In the example below the only difference in the formatted HTML is that one user has a space, and the other doesnt, making the two quotations end up getting styled very differently.

Tim

New version uploaded. Fixes this.

Thanks!

Gillingham

There's also an issue with certain characters it seems.

The username "(. )( .)" sans quotes also makes the yellowish quote box.

Lykaon

@Gillingham: Did you just draw ascii breasts? o.O

Gillingham

I sure did, I can't account for my users choice in names

DylanH

The username "(. )( .)" sans quotes also makes the yellowish quote box.

Usernames on a default Vanilla install only allow letters, numbers, and underscores. Loads of things break, like sending Conservations and @ replies, when you create an account with other characters.

Gillingham

If that's true than its a new change in 2.0, as the account was created normally in 1.x. If that change did happen than there should probably be some sort of notification in the importer.

Lykaon

I concur. Vanilla 1 allowed all sorts of craziness in the usernames. I have users with spaces, dashes, periods, parentheses. So far the only weird thing is that the @ notation doesn't work when it runs into these characters. Not a huge deal really, though.

Nimaveli

Yea, my members can't use for example this character in their name ''-'' how can I change this?

DylanH

Yea, my members can't use for example this character in their name ''-'' how can I change this?

You would have to change how @ replies and Conversations handle usernames, as well as anything else that may be broken when using non-standard characters.

If you don't use either of those features, admins can create accounts with hyphens, which is probably a bug.