[TYPO3-core] RFC: Bugfix #5630: Install tool removes dots from admin usernames and replace ereg_replace with preg_replace

[Martin Kutschker]

Oliver Hader schrieb:
> Hi again,
> 
> Steffen Kamper schrieb:
>> using \w also allows è and such chars, that was the reason in discussion
>> in dev-list to limit it to Ascii wit A-Za-z
> 
> I looked into the TCA definition of the field 'username' and there we
> have the following evaluation: "nospace,lower,unique,required".
> 
> This means, that the TYPO3 BE allows to create a user with umlaut
> characters or other special chars... hm...

I know, but I'm not sure this is a good thing.

Masi