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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