Not allowed to have unicode characters in user name
 
   
  
 
 
On my askbot app current I can show only latin character name. But my users want to show their user-name/display-name in their own language.
 
How to do that.
 
I tried to change my Screen Name from 'Home' to 'মাতবর' it said 'user name can only consist of letters, empty space and underscore'
 
Here is the screenshot
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Actually here user name is screen name. But I propose Screen name can be some different say real name.
 
thanks
 
 
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Are users able to create accounts with multibyte usernames?  Can you edit your question to include a screenshot of what the usernames look like?
 
 
 todofixthis's avatar todofixthis (12 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
Do you have a problem with urls or actual user names? Please do post a screenshot. Thanks!
 
 
 Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (12 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
I failed to upload image as my karma is less than 20
 
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 Zahid's avatar Zahid (12 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
OK, My karma is now 23 and succeed to upload screenshot.
 
 
 Zahid's avatar Zahid (12 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
I think we had this issue before... the regular expression that is supposed to tell the difference between word and non-word characters may not be working for your type-script.
 
 
 Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (12 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
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