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Bug 2696 - Test for username length should be made by characters, not bytes

Summary:	Test for username length should be made by characters, not bytes

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX Product: MediaWiki Classification: Unclassified Component: User login and signup (Other open bugs) Version: unspecified Hardware: All All Importance: Lowest minor (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: Whiteboard: Keywords: Depends on: Blocks:   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2005-07-04 13:37 UTC by Carlos Modified: 2011-03-13 18:06 UTC (History) CC List: 0 users See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description Carlos 2005-07-04 13:37:34 UTC Besides of the fact that 32 chars is sometimes too low (see bug:2693), by checking for a byte size the maximum character count for usernames not using ASCII is reduced to one half or one third. (For example, usernames in cyrillic would have a maximum size of 16 chars.) Comment 1 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2005-07-04 14:32:29 UTC It's necessary to test the number of bytes rather than the number of characters since the database works with bytes ( user_name has a maximum of 255 bytes ) and not characters, closing as WONTFIX.