Use illegal characters for username - How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/ Discussion Board en-US Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:52:02 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Use illegal characters for username https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/paged/2/#post-105069 Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:59:53 +0000 thanks for the help!

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 lefcholevas https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/paged/2/#post-105069 RE: Use illegal characters for username https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/paged/2/#post-105044 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:11:51 +0000 I would suggest against using non-latin (hight bit) characters in user names for Wordpress.

I'm told that it creates all kind of issues, 404 errors etc etc.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 dimalifragis https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/paged/2/#post-105044 RE: Use illegal characters for username https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/#post-105041 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:41:10 +0000

Do you know if there is a way to change that in Wordpress?

How to allow Non-Latin or Special characters in the registration form

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 Tutrix https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/#post-105041 RE: Use illegal characters for username https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/#post-105039 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:30:28 +0000 No, never tried to do that.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 dimalifragis https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/#post-105039 RE: Use illegal characters for username https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/#post-105038 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:34:42 +0000 Thanks for the answer. Do you know if there is a way to change that in Wordpress?

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 lefcholevas https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/#post-105038 RE: Use illegal characters for username https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/#post-105028 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:21:35 +0000 Hi. This is controlled by Wordpress and not by wpForo. wpForo is just an "interface" of login/register for easiness.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 dimalifragis https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/#post-105028 Use illegal characters for username https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/#post-105020 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:37:15 +0000 Is there a way to add more languages or remove the restriction to only latin characters when submiting a username? I want to have the posibility to use greek characters in usernames. Thanks in advance.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 lefcholevas https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/use-illegal-characters-for-username/#post-105020