What are the allowable characters in a name?

[bottiger]

What are the allowable characters in a xenforo name?

 

[Paul B]

Whatever you set in Options -> User Registration: User Name Match Regular Expression

 

[bottiger]

I know there's more than that. I got an error message about control characters.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Commas are not allowed as they are used to delimit lists of usernames. There are no other restricted characters to my knowledge. But of course you can impose your own requirements on usernames by defining a regex as Brogan pointed out.

 

[bottiger]

There are other restricted characters.

This regex allowed one of the problem names to work.

[\u0000-\u001f\u0080-\u009f]

I need to know if there are more.

 

[Jake Bunce]

This function verifies usernames:

XenForo_DataWriter_User::_verifyUsername

There are several restrictions, many of which are user-defined such as censored words.

What error message are you getting? That will help to know which check is failing.

 

[bottiger]

Thanks that is more helpful. I got a "please_enter_name_without_using_control_characters" error.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Ok, it is failing this check:

		// ignore check if unicode properties aren't compiled
		try
		{
			if (@preg_match("/\p{C}/u", $username))
			{
				$this->error(new XenForo_Phrase('please_enter_name_without_using_control_characters'), 'username');
				return false;
			}
		}
		catch (Exception $e) {}

For reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character