If you were to allow spaces in the user name I would force them all to
lower case (avoid duplicates if properly spaced). However collapsing
spaces is an idea I would not even entertain to use. "John Foobar" vs.
"John Foobar" is something that is always prone to errors if a user has
to input their name into a text field. You could also break the input
elements into a first name and last name fields. When you go to display
that information then you can properly insert the spaces.
On 07/30/2011 06:48 PM, Mutaz Musa wrote:
Hi folks,
What are your thoughts on allowing usernames with spaces, e.g. "john
smith". They're often disallowed and I was wondering on your thoughts
as to why that might be.
One reason I can think of is to avoid confusingly similar usernames,
e.g. "john smith" and "john smith" (2 spaces)
In those cases wouldn't collapsing multiple spaces into a single space
be a more conservative solution than disallowing the character
entirely?
Mutaz
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