Restrict user names to reasonable subset

[hoffmann]

It is presently (0.98rc1) possible to choose a user name like "CERN&CTA" (no joke, it just happened). InDiCo? somehow translates this in to HTML-escaped "CERN&CTA", which then becomes impossible for the user to type (unless it is a very clever user ;-).

The interface for UID choice should restrict the UID (not passwords!) to something like [a-zA-Z_0-9] and maybe some more carefully selected special characters [+-@.].

[hoffmann]

On a related note, InDiCo? could also use str.capitalize() on all incoming (real life) user names (first name, family name, ...) in order to have a uniform database.

[jbenito]

As for the fist request: by any chance...did you do a patch for that? if so, can you attach it here please.

I would prefer not to interfere with the users will to write their name, we will face problems in situations like Jean-Yves Le Blah...

On the other hand, if somebody wishes that, we could add an option in the admin area to force that.

Cheers,
Jose

[hoffmann]

Replying to jbenito:

As for the fist request: by any chance...did you do a patch for that? if so, can you attach it here please.

No, sorry. I have not yet worked on that.

I would prefer not to interfere with the users will to write their name, we will face problems in situations like Jean-Yves Le Blah...

Yes, since my second comment 8 months ago, I realized that writings for "Mc'Namara" and "Giscard d'Estaing" do not follow my general rule. Probably we have to live with it.
In fact, the annoying thing is that "John DOE" or "JOHN DOE" should become "John Doe", but I do not yet have a clever algorithm for that.

On the other hand, if somebody wishes that, we could add an option in the admin area to force that.

I am afraid there is no InDiCo? server which could reasonably work with the restriction I originally suggested (strict intitials capitalisation). But to forbid blunt capitals ("Jim IMPORTANT") would be a reasonable option in my opinion.