Steve Freides
Active member
We are currently on XF 1.5 and will shortly be moving to the latest version. I have a few questions about XF and diacritical marks and would appreciate answer for both 1.5 and 2.x. We are a US-based company that operates worldwide.
We list the people we have certified in our methods on our web site, by name. Right now, I sometimes miss finding a person on our website's list of certified names because their XF username is their actual name, minus the diacritical marks, but they've given us their name, with diacritical marks, for inclusion in the list on our web site.
I was working with a user whose last name included the letter "á". His username, on our XF 1.5 system, is his real name but uses "a" and not "á". When I went, for testing purposes, to create a username using the diacritical marks, XF told me the username was already in use. I assume this to mean that XF considers "á" and "a" to be identical.
1. Would XF 1.5, and would 2.x, allow a username to be created with a diacritical mark? If yes, is there a way to prevent this and not allow diacritical marks in usernames?
2. A broader question - I think that most email services don't allow diacritical marks in user/account names, e.g., you can't create mynáme@gmail.com, only myname@gmail.com. Is this actually true? And how to US-based, and foreign, XF admins deal with the issue of diacritical marks?
I am asking these questions because we are looking to formulate a policy on users and their names on our web site. A XF username is one variable here, but how we actually list the person's name is another. Most of our XF users choose not to be anonymous but use their actual name as their username.
Thanks very much in advance for your replies.
-S-
We list the people we have certified in our methods on our web site, by name. Right now, I sometimes miss finding a person on our website's list of certified names because their XF username is their actual name, minus the diacritical marks, but they've given us their name, with diacritical marks, for inclusion in the list on our web site.
I was working with a user whose last name included the letter "á". His username, on our XF 1.5 system, is his real name but uses "a" and not "á". When I went, for testing purposes, to create a username using the diacritical marks, XF told me the username was already in use. I assume this to mean that XF considers "á" and "a" to be identical.
1. Would XF 1.5, and would 2.x, allow a username to be created with a diacritical mark? If yes, is there a way to prevent this and not allow diacritical marks in usernames?
2. A broader question - I think that most email services don't allow diacritical marks in user/account names, e.g., you can't create mynáme@gmail.com, only myname@gmail.com. Is this actually true? And how to US-based, and foreign, XF admins deal with the issue of diacritical marks?
I am asking these questions because we are looking to formulate a policy on users and their names on our web site. A XF username is one variable here, but how we actually list the person's name is another. Most of our XF users choose not to be anonymous but use their actual name as their username.
Thanks very much in advance for your replies.
-S-
