Granting admin rights fails for usernames with special characters when admin account has 2FA enabled

kris.kotlarek · October 13, 2025, 1:54am

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FIX: URL encode usernames in grant admin redirect

main ← unicode-grant-admin

opened 08:58AM - 01 Sep 25 UTC

lis2

+14 -1

The grant admin action was not properly URL encoding usernames containing unicod…e characters, causing broken redirect URLs when usernames include special characters allowed by the allowed_unicode_username_characters site setting. https://meta.discourse.org/t/granting-admin-rights-fails-for-usernames-with-special-characters-when-admin-account-has-2fa-enabled/378063

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Granting admin rights fails for usernames with special characters when admin account has 2FA enabled

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