Username with Umlatus: wrong encoding

Hi Karsten,

I hope you are well today and thanks for posting on the forum.

By default in the WordPress admin area when we try to create a user in WordPress having username as Müller then it displays the following error message resulting in not allowing to create users with such user names.

This username is invalid because it uses illegal characters. Please enter a valid username.

Please advise.

Kind Regards,
Vinod Dalvi

Hello Vinod,
Thanks for coming back and sorry for confusing.

It’s not the username, but the display-name you use in the plugin.
I uploaded two Images from our testinstallation, I hope they will clarify the issue.

User in WP Backend: https://abload.de/img/chat-1lzu3w.jpg
User in Frontend-Chat: https://abload.de/img/chat-215uyp.jpg

Thanks for helping.

Kind regards,
Karsten

Steps to reproduce:
– Check: <?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?> is “UTF-8”
– Add a WordPress-user with a username of your choice (without umlauts).
– Set the lastname of this user to something with an Umlaut (like “Müller”)
– Set the nickname to something containing the lastname
– Login as this user, post something in the chat.
– Displayed Username will not be “Müller”, but “M??ller”.

(WordPress 4.1, Theme Twenty Fourteen, in case it matters)

Hi @karsten,

Thanks so much for those extra details! I was able to replicate it and for a quick fix you can do the following:

In wp-content/plugins/chat/ you’ll see chat.php

Line 2225 reads like so:

$prepend .= ' <span class="name" style="background: ' . $name_color . ';">' . stripslashes( $row->name ) . '</span>';

You can replace that with this:

$prepend .= ' <span class="name" style="background: ' . $name_color . ';">' . stripslashes( html_entity_decode($row->name) ) . '</span>';

It’s basically just adding the html_entity_decode() function which needs to be there since the name is initially encoded with that.

Meanwhile, I’ll get this over to the developers right away!

Thanks!
David

Hi David,

thank you very much, works for me!

Kind regards,
Karsten

You are most welcome here, if we can be of any further assistance please don’t hesitate to ask ??