Question

I cannot add a user with national chars in WikiName.

The cause is check for "Harmless string" in Sandbox.pm _buildCommandLine (line 220):

if ( $param =~ /^([0-9A-Za-z.+_\-]{0,30})$/ )

and it prevents to have such chars in command line that creates rcs file.

Is it bug or feature? If bug, then simple patch is in attachment

Environment

-- NikitaSmirnov - 12 Apr 2006

Answer

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The code has changed quite a bit since I first did I18N - back then, Apache authentication was the only option and that limited user names to ASCII characters, as I discovered. The new Sandbox code has presumably taken this constraint on board - however, it's probably more likely that the Sandbox code needs to be internationalised in that area. See InternationalisationGuidelines for the sort of code changes required to make I18N of WikiNames work across Perl versions and various environments.

-- RichardDonkin - 12 Apr 2006

Thank you Nikita, I filed Bugs:Item2402

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jun 2006

This is not a bug. Please see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/UsingI18NInUsernames for the workaround to allow you to use I18N in usernames.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 02 Jun 2006