https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61416
--- Comment #9 from Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Jon from comment #6) > Out of interest why does this matter? I seem to have missed the problem > here. > > If I register with the username "an unusual username" and it gets corrected > to "An unusual username" in my opinion as long as if I login with username > "an unusual username" and it still logs me in as that user (if it doesn't > then in my opinion that is the bug here) it shouldn't be a problem. What if you register "this__is__my__username" and it gets corrected to "This is my username"? Also, when a username is canonicalized, it is passed through $wgAuth->getCanonicalName(), which could do literally *anything* to the username depending on what authentication extension you have installed. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
