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Hi,

Just launched a site where member profile info is displayed at /username (using Solspace’s User module). No problems with User as far as I can see, but EE is refusing to display pages where the username contains non-alphanumeric characters, eg mysite.org/profile/Frédéric. The ‘Disallowed Key Characters’ message appears.

Is there any way to a) allow these characters in EE URLs, or b) disallow them in usernames? Or is there some other way out of this?

As I say, just launched and a thousand or so people - many with accents in their names! -  may want to update their profiles any day now, so hope to find a fix before this becomes a big problem. Thanks!

... EE is refusing to display pages where the username contains non-alphanumeric characters, eg mysite.org/profile/Frédéric. The ‘Disallowed Key Characters’ message appears.

I am afraid technically only 7bit low-ASCII characters (and then only a subset) are allowed in URLs.

Is there any way to a) allow these characters in EE URLs, or b) disallow them in usernames? Or is there some other way out of this?

Both approaches would work, I think, but require some custom code, either at the time of displaying them or when signing up. Couldn’t you use a function that makes the username url safe, as it were?

Thanks!

I trust that helped? Please don’t hesitate to post again as needed.