old problem ;-O) -- no solution yet. seen with e.g. hebrew lang based sites..

try rest with php script on yr server

mkdir ("accented folder name",...) & then create a test file

-- see if it allows.

For the time being, I think the best solution is to restrict usernames to ASCII letters and numbers only.

I think that Elgg should probably be enforcing this on the registration page.

Display names should take anything.

Okay! thanks a lot Dhrup and Kevin ;)

Hi. I think the problem has already been solved. There is a php utf8_to_ascii library that does the trick. It converts the utf8 characters to the closest ASCII equivalent (á to a, for a basic example). We are using it on our site for converting users full name to a SEO friendly url, without loosing the non ASCII chars. I believe it can manage non latin alphabets like russian.

More info here -> http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/03/us-ascii-transliterations-of-unicode-text/

(sorry about my bad english)

@Carlos

cool -- I have not visited sitePoint recently ;-(

Hi Morgar,

Very good news!

Could you possibly post your solution to Trac?

I know that Curverider staff are hard at work on the next release and this kind of practical solution would be welcome I think.

I had some experience with phpbb and I think it has solved all those problems. May be Curverider staff should take a look there =)

There could be a problem if you allow -for example- usernames with the same characters, but different accents, like angel angel and ángel (as phpbb does). If you convert it to a url using the utf8_to_ascii library, both will be converted to angel and you will get a name collision.

I didn't use the Trac yet, but I will do it.