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007 · #1 09-21-2005, 03:53 PM

I hate it when people sign up with ASCII characters in their usernames. There was a hack for 3.7 that made it so people could only use letters, numbers, and underscores in their usernames.

This would be so convenient to have for 3.5, especially since now that I upgraded, people have started signing up with annoying ASCII names again.

I'm sure everybody could use this as well. I have no clue why it's not a default feature by now.. but either way, there are a lot of vb owners who would love to see this based on how popular the last hack was.

Thanks to anybody who wants to take this on. It should just be a line or two of code, most likely possible as a plugin... but I don't understand 3.5 enough to know where to do it, or how exactly.

~007

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