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From: BB-Marin

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Date: 12/10/2010 9:54:11 AM
From: Pouah

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Date: 12/11/2010 8:49:22 AM
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Just a question:
For the bug with the login containing special character, you said to use a function that strips accent.
It's ok, and works properly.
But what about login containing other character like "°" ?

I know a user who was unable to connect, his login was pierrick°42. Someone of your staff had to change his login to pierrick42.

From: BB-Marin

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163625.22 in reply to 163625.21
Date: 12/15/2010 9:56:19 AM
TrenseRI
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I can't anticipate every possible combination. Special chars in logins are never a good idea.

From: Pouah

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Date: 12/16/2010 2:59:27 AM
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So why is it allowed in the creating account process ? :P

Just an idea:
If you strip characters accents (ñ => n, à => a, è => e, etc...),
why don't you transform special characters (which are not a letter) into a blank ?
example: pierrick°42 => pierrick 42

From: BB-Marin

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163625.24 in reply to 163625.23
Date: 12/17/2010 11:34:13 AM
TrenseRI
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Because it would be much more complicated to do (especially since I had that stripping function coded already). I tried to help you guys, but don't push it.

From: Pouah

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Date: 12/17/2010 12:15:42 PM
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It was just a suggestion, not an offense.
I have no idea how BB is coded so...

Thank you so much for all the job you've done :)
It's 1 000 000 times better now than it was earlier.

From: BB-Marin

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163625.26 in reply to 163625.25
Date: 12/18/2010 7:31:09 AM
TrenseRI
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No problem, I'm glad we understand each other. I'll think about what you said and maybe one day, I even do it the way you suggested.

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163625.27 in reply to 163625.26
Date: 2/17/2011 8:14:26 AM
TrenseRI
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Accent stripping for login is currently disabled since we had some issues with it. I'll have to think of a better way to do this and until I do, users with accents won't be able to login. Sorry!

From: Pouah

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163625.28 in reply to 163625.27
Date: 3/4/2011 5:13:17 AM
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I know it's not the place for, but may i do a suggestion ?

I dont know your structure database but why dont you add a "unique BBAPI ID" (like a social security number) to each user ?
This way you could allow users to connect to BBAPI with their login + access key OR with "unique BBAPI ID" + access key.

The "unique BBAPI ID" would be visible in your profil where you have to create/change your access key.
This way, no more troubles with non-latin characters !

What do you think ?

From: BB-Marin

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Date: 3/4/2011 8:34:58 AM
TrenseRI
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It's not a bad idea. I'm still working on a way to make it work as it is, but I'll take it into consideration.

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