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Bug 7463 - Blocking usernames from being made using unicode
Blocking usernames from being made using unicode
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1524
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User login and signup (Other open bugs)
1.7.x
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: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2006-10-02 02:53 UTC by Invalid Account
Modified: 2010-05-15 15:41 UTC (History)
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Description Invalid Account 2006-10-02 02:53:47 UTC 
I suggest an enhancement where there's a setting so usernames cannot be made using unicode characters.  
There's a blacklist, but the amount of possible combinations of unicode characters is massive--there's 
even a swastica.
Comment 1 Yuri Astrakhan 2006-10-02 02:59:43 UTC 
I am mostly concerned with the ability of user spoofing. For example, many
letters like a,o,e,k,p,... exist in cyrilic alphabet, and even though they look
identical, they have different unicode codes. So it would be possible to create
a user name with a mixture of two alphabets that look identical to an existing
user. (I hope a check like this has already been implemented, but if not...).
Comment 2 Invalid Account 2006-10-02 03:03:39 UTC 
I noticed a few years back when registering for certain names on yahoo for chat or profile (I forgot) 
it forced them to be lowercase when previously it allowed uppercase.  I assume that's due to the 
whole I/l and O/0 thing.
Comment 3 Dan Li 2006-10-02 04:22:13 UTC 
See bug 2290. Is that what you mean?
Comment 4 Brion Vibber 2006-10-02 18:06:57 UTC 
All usernames are Unicode.

Duping to bug 1524, since that's probably what they're getting at.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1524 ***
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