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Invalid character in nick

Asked by T32770

Hello

We just tried to update from 2.9 to 2.10, but get this error "Invalid character in nick" when we want to log in again because some of the users have this symbol "Nick™ " in their nick.
Can I do something without having to regge all over again?

BR T3

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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#1

No. Whitespaces aren't allowed in the nicks anymore.

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T32770 (t32770) said : 		#2

Tnx
Sorry for my English, but is Whitespaces " " Space between or the symbol ™ ?

Can I do something or shall all our users have new name? :-(
Or stay on 2.9.0.

BR T32770

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poy (poy) said : 		#3

whitespaces such as the space " ", tabulations, new lines, and any invisible character are now forbidden. the ™ symbol should work fine.

this was done to avoid impersonators (a user using the same nick as someone else but that differs only with an invisible / whitespace character).

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T32770 (t32770) said : 		#4

But none of our users have space " " in their nick, but we all have the ™ in our nick, and we all got the error, and can't lock in?

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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#5

In your example

"Nick™ "

there's a whitespace in the end of the nick....

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T32770 (t32770) said : 		#6

Sorry that was a mistake, because we do not have whitespace , our nick looks like this "[HUB ™]Nick" without ""

BR T32770

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poy (poy) said : 		#7

the trademark sign does get wrongly rejected. this is somewhat difficult to solve as it spans 3 bytes, while the invalid char checking code only goes up to 2 bytes per character.

click on "Create bug report" to record this issue, but i'm not sure it could be solved.

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poy (poy) said : 		#8

nevermind, found a way. :)

all the characters on <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/letterlike_symbols/list.htm> will now be allowed.

version 2.10.1 will be released soon to address this.

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T32770 (t32770) said : 		#9

Thanks for the help, and thanks for super hub software :-)

BR T32770