As a security concern, you might not want to allow full UTF-8 usernames. There are a number of invisible characters (from the soft hyphen to various connector characters) which people can use to spoof other users' names.
Daniel > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 1:50 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Form login UTF-8 username problem > > Dave wrote: > > Web application using JBoss 4.0.3SP1 and servlets. > > I am using FORM authentication. Can username be UTF-8? > > I create an account, its username is in UTF-8 encoding, > chinese characters. > > But login was not successful. Can JBoss built-in > authentication handle UTF-8 encoding for username? > > This looks like > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31198 > > It is fixed in 5.5.7+ > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
