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Warning: Non-US characters in user name (General)

by Auge ⌂, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 15:01 (2566 days ago) @ danielb987
edited by Auge, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 09:41

Hello

I have a Swedish forum there some of the users have Swedish characters in their user names. I have now noticed that if two users have user names that looks alike but are different, they will not be able to login.

Example:
One user has the user name "daniel" and the other user has the user name "däniel".

I can confirm this misbehaviour in one of <del>my accessible</del> servers <ins>I have access to</ins>. The reason is the use of the collation utf8_general*. A blog entry (in german language) offers a solution, the use of the collation utf8_bin. But this has the same issues like your unique index and has to be implemented equally careful.

Tschö, Auge

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