Usernames witha accented characters, is it possible?

  • 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

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

    Thread Starter nutsmuggler

    (@nutsmuggler)

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

    mamouneyya

    (@mamouneyya)

    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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