--- pathauto.module	Tue Apr 12 17:09:57 2005
+++ pathauto.module	Tue Apr 12 17:16:03 2005
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
     // User name info
     $result = db_query("SELECT name FROM {users} WHERE uid = '%u'", $node->uid);
     $userinfo = db_fetch_object($result);
-    $placeholders['[user]'] = $userinfo->name;  
+    $placeholders['[user]'] = _pathauto_cleanstring($userinfo->name, $separator);
 
     // Category info
     if (module_exist('taxonomy')) {