Thanks. To summarize quickly, (corrections please) 2008 - Usernames in django.contrib.auth are restricted to ASCII alphanumerics. Allowing Unicode seems fairly simple: compile the validator's regular expression with the re.UNICODE flag.
but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#ASCII_Spoofing_and_squatting_concerns 2014 - trac issue still open, no tests, no patches, with problems in difference between py2 and py3 (py2 is supported until 2017) normalization could be done with https://docs.python.org/2/library/unicodedata.html#unicodedata.normalize unicodedata.normalize(input, 'NFKD') On Thursday, 21 April 2016 11:43:56 UTC-4, Tim Graham wrote: > > Here is one: > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/6aAHgP5g0lA/discussion > (all I did was search "unicode username") > > Here's a relevant Trac ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21379 > >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/746795c5-7009-48c4-8065-9d5c1997033c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
