Registration - validation message on username field

[abhi0123]

While registering at this website, I discovered that using an username which starts with an upper case letter throws an error "Username must start with a letter...". I was able to register using the same username, this time all in lower case.

The error message was totally misleading. Besides, In my opinion, usernames need not be case-sensitive.

[lkrzyzanek]

Hi,

jboss.org allows only lower cases in username because we use single account management also for other applications and some of them allows only lower cases.

Validation error should be: "Invalid username. Usernames must start with a letter. Allowed characters are a-z (only lower case), 0-9, _, - (dash), and .(dot).".

Thanks,

Libor

[abhi0123]

Libor Krzyžanek wrote:

Hi,

jboss.org allows only lower cases in username because we use single account management also for other applications and some of them allows only lower cases.

Validation error should be: "Invalid username. Usernames must start with a letter. Allowed characters are a-z (only lower case), 0-9, _, - (dash), and .(dot).".

I agree. Are we going to see the change in the validation message anytime soon? As I mentioned in the OP, I do not think "(only lower case)" is displayed now.

[lkrzyzanek]

Hi,

it depends what preferred language do you choosen in your browser?

Is it English? or another language please?

If it's "en" or "en-US" or "en-anythign" validation message is OK.

Thanks,

Libor

[abhi0123]

Libor Krzyžanek wrote:

Hi,

it depends what preferred language do you choosen in your browser?

Is it English? or another language please?

If it's "en" or "en-US" or "en-anythign" validation message is OK.

Thanks,

Libor

en-US.

I would like to propose a change to the validation message posted above:

"Invalid username. Usernames must start with a lower case alphabet. Allowed characters are lower case alphabets (a-z), digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-\) , and period (.)".

where (-\) is just to escape

[newtonm]

I've just tested creating a new user with username 'Testing' (using en-US language in my browser) and the error message returned was:

Invalid username. Usernames must start with a letter. Allowed characters are a-z (only lower case), 0-9, _, - (dash), and .(dot).

It already mentions lower case so there is nothing to fix.

thanks,

Mark