On Jan 7, 2014 9:14 PM, "Jon Robson" <jdlrobson@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Does it really matter if my name got slightly formatted? Seems like we
> are making a mountain out of a mole hill. If I log in with "my
> username" it should still allow me to login as "My username". Why do I
> care how things are formatted behind the scenes?
>
People do complain about this on bugzilla on ocassion.
> If a user enters an invalid character for users with JavaScript you
> could improve this by disabling the submit button and saying "invalid
> character entered". The combination of these 2 things seems more than
> enough over something trivial.
>
Some invalid chatacters (most actually) are invisible. Users may not realize nor be able to see the rlm they entered (for example).
There's also a distinction between normalization and invalid. Many wont know the difference between normalized chars (different spaces etc)
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