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Usernames with diacritics cause an error at login on Windows

Bug #1030826 reported by Simon Story
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mahara
Fix Released
High
Christopher Tombleson
Mahara 1.6.0

Bug Description

If a username contains a diacritic (Ie. Simoné) on Windows the interactive login can fail with an error.

This effects at least:
Windows Server 2008 R2
IIS 7
Postgresql 9.1.4
PHP 5.3.13
Mahara 1.5.1

Tags: i18n
Revision history for this message
Simon Story (simon-story) wrote :

Probably related to improper handling of multi-byte characters (Re: UTF-8) characters on when using PHP on Windows.

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Simon Story (simon-story) wrote :
Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport)
tags: added: i18n
Changed in mahara:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 1.6.0
Christopher Tombleson (christopher-k)
Changed in mahara:
assignee: nobody → Christopher Tombleson (christopher-k)
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Melissa Draper (melissa) wrote :

https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/1471/

Changed in mahara:
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A change has been merged

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/1471
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/0c75d7a7f345de65d658a0369993a67314189bbf
Submitter: Hugh Davenport (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 0c75d7a7f345de65d658a0369993a67314189bbf
Author: Christopher Tombleson <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Aug 1 11:02:38 2012 +1200

    Fixing login issue (Bug #1030826)

    If possible use mb_strtolower rather than strtolower as it
    might not convert UTF-8 characters properly.

    Change-Id: I91a78e74b9154362d1c631db24a6d5e5ddeccb14
    Signed-off-by: Christopher Tombleson <email address hidden>

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Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport) wrote :

https://reviews.mahara.org/1496 <- 1.6 version, will autopush

Changed in mahara:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote :

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/1496
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/76fa724d54fc1e971552e96f67fc65363fcb6db4
Submitter: Hugh Davenport (<email address hidden>)
Branch: 1.6_STABLE

commit 76fa724d54fc1e971552e96f67fc65363fcb6db4
Author: Christopher Tombleson <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Aug 1 11:02:38 2012 +1200

    Fixing login issue (Bug #1030826)

    If possible use mb_strtolower rather than strtolower as it
    might not convert UTF-8 characters properly.

    Change-Id: I91a78e74b9154362d1c631db24a6d5e5ddeccb14
    Signed-off-by: Christopher Tombleson <email address hidden>

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Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport) wrote :

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Changed in mahara:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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