Not English User: cannot login?

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New user entered a user name in Russian language (a 6 letters name) in the registration form. Then he cannot login.
I (admin) changed the name to an English name, and he can login.
Looks like only user names in English can pass through Login.

Comments please. If it is a bug (the length of field in the DB is not enough to store encoded non-English names?) can this be fixed in the next release?
Evgeny
[originally posted on jforum.net by Evgeny]

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It's hard to say exactly. It depends of how is configured your database. If the username field is, say, 20 chars long, and the db server uses "raw" UTF-8 (I mean, using the long notation Java uses, instead of writing only the 6 chars and handling it internally), then much probably you'll have problems.

However, if in fact this is the problem, there should be a remedy, otherwise which logic would be that if you had to design a database for latin languages and other for cyrililc ones?!

As far as I know, JForum as some expressive number of users from Russia, Japan, China and other places where cyrillic chars are used, and, at least they tried JForum just once and never more, the login and all other stuff must work - so that's why I guess there is some issue with the database configuration.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Andowson, which is a JForum contributor too, said it works for him. He also lives in a country which uses cyrillic chars, using postgresql (utf-) as database. If you want tro try its registration form, the url is

http://andowson.no-ip.com/jforum

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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This works OK for me with utf-8 database encoding (mysql 4.1).

Gleb
[originally posted on jforum.net by gst]