Exclamation mark and special characters in usernames

Product Support Migration
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makes perfect sense @Stephen, thanks for clarifying.

I think we could just alter the import script to do something like:

username_original = username
username = @htmlentities.decode(user["username"]).strip

{
          id: user["userid"],
          name: username_original,
          username: username,
          password: password,
[...]

And in the discourse setting enable the priority for the user “name”, if it’s present, over the username.