By vedat.kamer on

Whick characters can be used for username in drupal? When i tried to write a turkish name like "Suat Gültepe" for registration it gives "The username contains an illegal character" error. Is it possible to use UTF-8 for usernames? Thank you.

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vedat.kamer’s picture

vedat.kamer commented

i installed today's cvs of drupal.

Steven’s picture

Steven commented

This is not possible at the moment. For a quick hack, you can remove line 180 (in CVS) from user.module:

if (ereg('[^ [:alnum:]@_.-]', $name)) return t('The username contains an illegal character.');

alex.ihlo’s picture

alex.ihlo commented

Where is this located in d6?

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danielb commented

I am also having this same problem. I would consider it a bug since the character I am using is most definitely not illegal in my country, or in any RFC.

alex.ihlo’s picture

alex.ihlo commented

what'd you wind up doing about this?