Title: Custom authentication (add_filter) – username encoding
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Custom authentication (add_filter) – username encoding

 *  [lulutchab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lulutchab/)
 * (@lulutchab)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-authentication-add_filter-username-encoding/)
 * Hello,
 * I used the information on this page ([http://ben.lobaugh.net/blog/7175/wordpress-replace-built-in-user-authentication](http://ben.lobaugh.net/blog/7175/wordpress-replace-built-in-user-authentication))
   to install my custom authentication.
 * It works correctly except if the user has a character with an accent in the username(
   ie: à, é,…).
    I did a few tests and find out that the username passed as argument
   to the custom authenticate function is not exactly the one I entered in the login
   form. For example, if I enter “luciené”, the custom authenticate function receive“
   luciene” as parameter for username.
 * WordPress seems to reencode the remove the accent on the characters… Is it possible
   to change this?
 * Thank you in advance

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-authentication-add_filter-username-encoding/)
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