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[nycphp-talk] Usernames with whitespace

Mutaz Musa mutazmusa at gmail.com
Sat Jul 30 18:48:43 EDT 2011


Hi folks,
What are your thoughts on allowing usernames with spaces, e.g. "john
smith". They're often disallowed and I was wondering on your thoughts
as to why that might be.
One reason I can think of is to avoid confusingly similar usernames,
e.g. "john smith" and "john  smith" (2 spaces)
In those cases wouldn't collapsing multiple spaces into a single space
be a more conservative solution than disallowing the character
entirely?

Mutaz



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