
Re: Problem!... The User Name Doesn't Change At All
Never saw this last page of posts! You're welcome, and thanks
leonidfg
Thanks that works. but what if I want special characters in the name like ™ ∫˜µ˜∫√ß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬ˆ¨¥†®´∑œ
and stuff.
anyway thanks

Ha ha! That would be great, being a physicist I appreciate a little integration - and integration is what forums are for, right
In general, most symbols are stripped from inputs fields, or else in messages, most chars are converted via htmlentities (or the other equivalent function whose name I forget now) to avoid hacks, sql injections and the like.
However. I think there could be a logical reason for excluding the symbols like those above in usernames - displaying these depends on the character set of the browser (indeed, unfortunately, every page you create depends on the fonts the browser can access, so how the text on your site appears on IE in windows will be slightly different to how it appears in Konquerer in linux - quite frustrating if you care about how your site looks in different browsers)... these characters are not part of the standard html character specification... but in the extended special characters. If a browser has just a standard charset, then a square box will be shown (like if you try to view a chinese website, and you happen not to have Chinese fonts installed). I had related issues in a mod I'll be releasing here shortly - a bbcode graphical guitar tab system. I wanted to be able to allow users to show some musical special chars (like, say the flat symbol, or musical rests), but it can't be done as its is a special character, and isn't in the standard html character spec (this time within the gd imagetext library). A possible work around in using ttf fonts...
Anyway, thats what I suspect