Bug Special Character Usernames Can't Be Nominated

[pgowder]

When people try to nominate someone for awards that have special characters in their username, they are told it is an invalid username.

For example:
Joe's Dad

 

[Fillip H.]

I am unable to confirm this issue on vBulletin 3.8.7

Is that an actual username that's been rendered unable to be nominated, or are there other, specific ones I can test?

 

[pgowder]

That is the user's name. And it won't work. Neither will be Grits & Beans.

 

[Ozzy47]

You reported the product version as 1.1 the current version is 2.1.9 please upgrade to the latest version.

Also when you report a issue please include the foll vB version like 3.8.7 not 3.8

 

[pgowder]

I didn't know the version of the mod. But is the latest. It was just installed 2 weeks ago by your staff.

vbulletin is 3.8.2

 

[Fillip H.]

You can find version numbers by going to the Product Manager

In either case, can you try using a different browser? I tested it in Firefox 7.0 when I wrote my previous post.

 

[pgowder]

Just tried Grits & Beans with Internet Explorer. Invalid user.

 

[Fillip H.]

Can you try disabling all other products?

 

[pgowder]

still gives error

 

[Fillip H.]

90.209.78.14, you know what to do

 

[pgowder]

done

 

[Fillip H.]

Whoops, my bad, it's 90.209.78.147

Sorry

 

[pgowder]

try now

 

[Fillip H.]

Works fine now

I created a user called Te'stTest and tried to nominate them for the LMAO Award, it worked fine. I did not change anything in the files prior to testing this.

I'm quite stumped as to what could be the issue =/

 

[pgowder]

Just tried again, I stillcan't nominate Grits & Beans.

 

[Fillip H.]

Aha, that explains it, it worked with all chars except chars like & and % and other such chars that were converted into HTML Entities.

Hotfix applied on your site

 

[pgowder]

Awesome, thanks!