[Opensim-dev] Create user and spaces in the first and last names

[SignpostMarv Martin]

I think I've tinkered with this before. The problem you're likely to get 
is standardising (c# code and SQL query/search code) on the separation 
of first name & last name for legacy purposes (e.g. is first name always 
one word or last name?). There's also any third-party services that work 
on the assumption of First_Last. The example justincc cites is an 
example of the standardisation issue (is the legacy name "Bob The" 
Builder or Bob "The Builder".

I suppose a cludgy way around it would be to force the username to 
"BobThe Builder" (two-word username) and have a display name default to 
"Bob The Builder" ?

~ Marv.

On 18/07/2012 00:50, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> Hi Stanley.  OpenSimulator will allow you to have both apostrophe (') 
> and hyphen (-) in a name and from a quick test viewer 3 appears fine 
> with both as well (indeed, I've been using my full last name in 
> OpenSimulator with no issues for years).
>
> Space is much trickier.  OpenSimulator will allow you to do "create 
> user" on the robust console with a space by surrounding it with double 
> quotes ("), e.g.
>
> # create user Bob "The Builder"
>
> But v3, at least, won't process the name properly to login.
>
> As Argus says, quite possibly multiple spaces could be included in 
> display names [1], though I'm not super-familiar with these. 
> Unfortunately, these are not currently implemented in OpenSimulator 
> and the implementation would take a considerable amount of work.
>
> It also looks like display names would require a webpage profile 
> implementation for version 3 viewers in order to allow it to be 
> changed.  I know BlueWall is doing some work on this but I expect that 
> would still be a multi-multi-month project in order to both construct 
> the necessary web code, tie it back into OpenSimulator, change viewer 
> code to allow an alternative profile location (which also ties you 
> into a subset of viewers) and sort out the require authorization 
> system for simulator to profile comms.  Having said that, one could 
> also tie in a different external way to change display names (possibly 
> even just a service console command though that's the most manual way 
> short of direct db change).
>
> In other words, it's a surprisingly big project.  Unfortunately, I 
> can't help right now as all my consulting time is being taken up by an 
> existing client.
>
> [1] 
> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Usernames-and-display-names/ta-p/700173#Section_.2
>
> Regards,
>
> Justin Clark-Casey
>
> On 17/07/12 17:13, Argus wrote:
>> Allowing spaces would require extreme modifications which also 
>> include the viewer. One could however implement display
>> names. I am not sure on the compatebility with v2 viewers and if it 
>> might even already implemented in OS...
>>
>> Am 17.07.2012 03:29, schrieb Stanley Yip:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I've Googled, read and tested locally as much as a I can and I'd 
>>> like to confirm that some things on usernames in OpenSim.
>>>
>>> *The context*
>>> I used a clean Sim On A Stick (v0.7.2) instance and used the server 
>>> command console to run 'create user' and found that,
>>>
>>> - does not accept spaces in first or last names
>>> - does accept apostrophes and hyphens in first and last names
>>>
>>> *The question*
>>> - Is the inclusion of spaces in first and last name something that 
>>> can be updated in the core code?
>>>
>>> The project I'm working on is happy to look at paying for this 
>>> development work to happen.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> *Stanley Yip*
>>>
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