Not a bug XenForo Doesn't Recognize Some Symbols as Different

[Amaury]

Ran into this issue on @mistypants' KH-Vids site and decided to do personal testing.

On Misty's site, where there are a lot of users, if you want a name that's already taken, you can get around it by doing things like Amαury (notice that the second A is acrylic) or A m a u r y. However, the former -- using acrylic letters or letters with accents over them -- does not always work.

I had requested a name change to Simbα because there was already a user named simba, and Simba would have made no difference, which didn't work. I then asked Misty to try Símba and Simbá, both of which didn't work, so I just went with S i m b a.

Doing personal testing on KH-Flare, I renamed Test Account to Simba. Now, if I also want to be named Simba, and I input it as Simbα, Símba, or Simbá, I get the following error, which says the name's already in use even though it's not:

 

[Jeremy]

This is caused by the MySQL storage engine. I'll look for the thread later.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/duplicate-entry-alex-for-key-2.34588/#post-504426 (is related)

 

[Amaury]

This is caused by the MySQL storage engine. I'll look for the thread later.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/duplicate-entry-alex-for-key-2.34588/#post-504426 (is related)

Unfortunately, I don't really understand the post. However, for the issue at hand, would it be a server issue or limitation, then?

 

[Martok]

Amαury (notice that the second A is acrylic)

The second 'A' is α which is 'alpha', the first letter of the Greek Alphabet. You may have been thinking of the Cyrillic Alphabet which is used in Russia. Acrylic isn't an Alphabet, in simple terms it's a type of plastic.