XF 1.3 Import error/bug vb4: users with german umlauts get merged

[sinucello]

Hi,
when importing a vB4 forum and you have two users with almost the same name like for example:
1. MüMa
2. muma

where the only difference in the name is the german umlaut ü, the user will be merged into the user without the umlaut.

Example:
old vB4 forum:
http://archiv.wunderkessel.de/forum/showthread.php?t=76796

new xenForo forum after import:
http://www.wunderkessel.de/t/marmorkuchen-mit-eierlikoer-und-schokotropfen.76796/#post-1257980

The user MüMa is not existing any more after the import. We`ll have to re-create those users and manually re-assign their postings to those users.

Ciao,
Sacha

 

[Mike]

Nothing can be done about this. MySQL is "accent insensitve". It sees those users as the same. The only reason it didn't happen before would be because of a technical configuration/incorrect character set. The user would need to be renamed during the import (if you didn't choose to merge with name conflicts, it should have prompted you).

 

[sinucello]

Thanks. Incorrect charset could be true, we switched from latin to utf-8 at some point back when we used vB. So lets hope that there are not so many of them.