On our main site there are often people who use underscores and dashes in usernames. When they are ported to our Discourse forum, one or more of those characters is often dropped from the username, resulting in a mismatch. The forum is provided for the site users only and being able to correlate be…

The usernames are being auto-edited to reflect the Discourse rules for usernames.

That’s pretty much what I figured. Thankfully we have found a place that keeps the actual username intact.

We recently added two site settings which allow you to permit more characters in the username [imagen] Unicode usernames and group names megaphoneAnnouncements Lifting the restrictions on allowed characters in usernames is one of the oldest feature requests. S…

We’ll take a look at that and see if it helps. Thank you.

We are seeing this too with SSO as well with usernames being converted. I have mentioned this here , but this topic is more recent — maybe someone can take a look. With the introduction of the Unicode support for usernames/groups, it is now possible to have usernames like 中国 (which is awesome!) but…

It does get difficult when users put in a special character because the username they want is taken.

You can try overwriting those rules in a custom plugin and living with it for a few weeks. If it shows no problems in normal Discourse usage, send a pull request.

I’m having a go at this and managed to get leading/trailing dashes on usernames working fine, including on mentions. Not so lucky with the underscore at start+end of a username because on the message composer the markdown parser seems to have precedence before the @ mentions: the username gets rend…

Caracteres especiales eliminados en nombres de usuario

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Falco (Falco) 10 Agosto, 2019 02:44 4

Recientemente hemos añadido dos configuraciones del sitio que te permiten permitir más caracteres en el nombre de usuario.

¿Ya probaste ajustarlas?

Tema		Respuestas	Vistas
Unicode usernames and group names Announcements new-feature	34	8859	25 Febrero 2025
Username can support more languages or custom settings UX	2	1968	22 Enero 2022
Would like an update on the username settings if possible! Support	3	391	9 Noviembre 2023
Exclamation mark and special characters in usernames Migration	25	4244	30 Abril 2024
Any options for over-riding the username restrictions? Support	16	4209	29 Abril 2021

Caracteres especiales eliminados en nombres de usuario

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