Report, edit, etc...Posted by Felagund on 2005-02-21 at 18:54:30
Alright, I bought one of those Change username items in the Store. Well, I tried to type [aE]Felagund, but I couldn't. I looked and sure enough it gave me a list of additional characters that I could use, and "[" and "]" were not on there. However, this is confusing as some people have this in their usernames, such as Beer_Keg[eM], for example. Would you please make these characters available?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by BeeR_KeG on 2005-02-21 at 18:57:23
My name is an illy 
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yoshi da Sniper on 2005-02-21 at 18:58:58
We disabled use of certain characters.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Felagund on 2005-02-21 at 20:35:17
Yoshi, that's apparent, but why?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by BeeR_KeG on 2005-02-21 at 20:39:51
QUOTE(BeeR_KeG[eM)
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Test
Test
Becuase my name messes up the BBCodes
Report, edit, etc...Posted by CheeZe on 2005-02-21 at 21:06:40
Could it be fixed if we used strings there instead or would newbies have a hard time understanding?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by IsolatedPurity on 2005-02-22 at 07:58:42
Not only does it mess with bbcodes, but characters like the / and ' are used in sql queries and such. A name with special characters is converted to codes like this:
<CD>Mynamepwnz
when the name is <CD>Mynamepwnz.
It's uber annoying, so I killed it. I don't know why invisionize didn't block out that crap to begin with. Almost all sites limit you to normal characters.
Cheeze, what do you mean by using strings?
<CD>Mynamepwnz
when the name is <CD>Mynamepwnz.
It's uber annoying, so I killed it. I don't know why invisionize didn't block out that crap to begin with. Almost all sites limit you to normal characters.
Cheeze, what do you mean by using strings?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by BeeR_KeG on 2005-02-22 at 18:00:40
So basicly just with my name, if i use the irght code I can make myself admin
Damn, I should've thought of that first... Oh yeah... I don't know .php
Damn, I should've thought of that first... Oh yeah... I don't know .php
Report, edit, etc...Posted by ChaosRyder on 2005-02-23 at 18:08:21
but there is also like clan MC and aE that have [ ] in their names. I mean you can register with them, but you can't use them in chage your user name? Thats real weird...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by LegacyWeapon on 2005-02-23 at 18:11:47
QUOTE(BeeR_KeG[eM)
,Feb 21 2005, 06:57 PM]My name is an illy
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QUOTE(Yoshi da Sniper @ Feb 21 2005, 06:58 PM)
We disabled use of certain characters.
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Notice how Yoshi disabled the characters after many people have already signed up.
Edit - Actually IP did it (see post below this).
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yoshi da Sniper on 2005-02-23 at 18:21:33
IP did it, actually. I can't take credit for it. His reasons are justified though.