[dokuwiki] Re: Special characters in user names

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:42:19 +0200
Dave Kliczbor <maligree@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello out there,
> 
> I wonder about the username restrictions in dokuwiki. On the
> registration page, it says (translated from the german text) "The user
> name should consist only of one word, not containing any umlauts,
> spaces nor special characters."
> As far as I know, "should" means "it is recommended" -- but not
> "required".

"should" means it dependends on the used Auth-Backend. The default
plaintext backend will take whatever you enter as username and run the
cleanID function on it to make sure it's a valid page-id.

Andi

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