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Bug 631676 - Empathy or telepathy-idle should warn about illegal characters in names
Empathy or telepathy-idle should warn about illegal characters in names
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 629261
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accounts
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-10-08 13:09 UTC by Stéphane Maniaci
Modified: 2011-03-12 02:49 UTC
See Also:
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Description Stéphane Maniaci 2010-10-08 13:09:42 UTC 
I'm running Fedora 14-pre, with Empathy 2.32.0.1 and telepathy-idle-0.1.6. 

I was trying to connect Freenode, but faced some mysterious network errors. I then opened the debug log in Empathy, and saw that my nickname ("__stephane", for the record), wasn't accepted by freenode, because of the starting underscores I guess. I then changed "stephhh", and it worked. 

I don't know if this should be detected somehow in telepathy-idle or Empathy (is it even a global IRC rule?), but lamba user won't have any idea about what's wrong.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-10-11 08:23:48 UTC 
Marking as a dup of bug #629261 as it's pretty similar.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 629261 ***
Comment 2 Debarshi Ray 2011-03-12 02:49:57 UTC 
See: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/33913

Freenode does allow nicknames like __stephane, but not for usernames. There was a bug in Telepathy Idle which caused this problem.