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1. nutsmuggler
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello folks,
   I have built a fairly large WP website which has replaced an existing non-WP portal.
   I have imported a large number of users. Some usernames contain accented characters (ex: libertà) and the corresponding users cannot login.
   I tried, as an experiment, to create new usernames with accents, and realised WordPress discards non ascii characters in new usernames.
   Any suggestion? Is there a way to support usernames with the àéèiòù characters?
   Thanks in advance,
   Davide

2. vpsdiscussions
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What is the character set for your blogs MySQL database tables?

3. nutsmuggler
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It's unicode utf-8; the database collation is utf8_general_ci, and so is the table collation.

4. mamouneyya
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Did you manage to solve this?

   I really am wondering why WP doesn't natively allow non-ASCII characters to be used in a username.. Not everyone speaks English guys!

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