[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13162: Username sanitization silently remove diacritic & such

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#13162: Username sanitization silently remove diacritic & such
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 Reporter:  Jbb           |       Owner:             
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.0        
Component:  General       |     Version:             
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  needs-patch
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Comment(by koopersmith):

 If we can't support accented characters, I'd be for using remove_accents
 and potentially some JS to strip accents as the username is entered
 (though, without a warning, that might be confusing in its own right).

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