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Users: strip out periods when generating proposals

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Some systems seem to disallow them in usernames, but more
importantly, the proposals look just wrong for abbreviated
middle initials with a period.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650777
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Matthias Clasen 2011-05-23 09:19:19 -04:00
parent f50f66f345
commit 13a08f4994
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panels/user-accounts/um-utils.c
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@ -557,14 +557,18 @@ generate_username_choices (const gchar *name,
lc_name = g_ascii_strdown (ascii_name, -1); lc_name = g_ascii_strdown (ascii_name, -1);
/* remove all non ASCII alphanumeric chars from the name, /* Remove all non ASCII alphanumeric chars from the name,
* apart from the few allowed symbols * apart from the few allowed symbols.
*
* We do remove '.', even though it is usually allowed,
* since it often comes in via an abbreviated middle name,
* and the dot looks just wrong in the proposals then.
*/ */
stripped_name = g_strnfill (strlen (lc_name) + 1, '\0'); stripped_name = g_strnfill (strlen (lc_name) + 1, '\0');
i = 0; i = 0;
for (c = lc_name; *c; c++) { for (c = lc_name; *c; c++) {
if (!(g_ascii_isdigit (*c) || g_ascii_islower (*c) || if (!(g_ascii_isdigit (*c) || g_ascii_islower (*c) ||
*c == ' ' || *c == '-' || *c == '.' || *c == '_' || *c == ' ' || *c == '-' || *c == '_' ||
/* used to track invalid words, removed below */ /* used to track invalid words, removed below */
*c == '?') ) *c == '?') )
continue; continue;