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Why IPB disallows an "|" character in login names and username ?


NotTheUsernameThatIWant

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why commercial and top-quality forum engine disallows an "|" character in login names and username ? Other free forum engines such as phpBB3 and vBuletin have no problems with this characters. Many people want to use "|" character as clan tags separation: "cTF|Someone" and this fact alone makes that i cannot use IPB forum engine and many communities where are clans also can't.

According to ASCII Codes:

Char Dec Oct Hex
| 124 0174 0x7c

Why it isn't supported ? Can you please change this ?

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It's not mentioned anywhere so it's not surprising you didn't know that. Have a look at /admin/sources/classes/member/memberFunctions.php around line 653 - there's a quite large array in the username clean function which causes an error during registration.

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