On 1/29/08, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No! Unicode usernames is a bad idea. Usernames can be used for URLs, > paths and other technical stuff. Unicode usernames is a source of > unlimited potential bugs. It might be a good idea to add the unicode > 'nickname' field that can be used instead of username in views - and > still use 'username' for usrls and paths. There's no Russian site that > would allow you to enter the login/username in Russian.
Don't say for all. phpBB3 allow unicode usernames and it use fancy way to get rid of usernames which look the same. E.g. they use a list of confusables (equaly looking chars), so they substitute all of them one prefered one when comparing usernames. MediaWiki also allows usernames to be in unicode, MoinMoin is here too. I'm running a site with phpBB3, MediaWiki and homebrew Django application, all intergrated to authenticate against phpBB3 user table and it works perfectly fine with unicode usernames. Well, except Django admin pages, which are claiming that usernames are not valid. Nut I'm not very concerned about this, as I use it very rarely. So, here is other point of view. I think full support of unicode usernames will be very helpful, but a way to limit them to ASCII (or whatever else) would be a good thing to have too. -- Regards, Alexander Chemeris. SIPez LLC. SIP VoIP, IM and Presence Consulting http://www.SIPez.com tel: +1 (617) 273-4000 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
