Technical stuff, for the interested, follows!
Special characters don't carry over because MediaWiki encodes them differently than MyBB does, so you end up with the usernames not matching up for the purposes of checking passwords. This is a classic "why u no use UTF-8" issue.
MediaWiki uses a binary store, while MyBB uses UTF-16. The net result is that anything outside of standard ASCII tends to give the plugin heartburn.
Underscores don't work right because, in the MediaWiki world, underscores and spaces are the same thing. MyBB, of course, cares a lot about underscores. The plugin gets called a couple of times during the authentication process and gets both the raw username (whatever you typed in) and the cooked one (with the underscore replaced by a space) at different points. Since there's no way to disambiguate the two, we're left with a curious situation where we'd have to check the MyBB database 2^(number of underscores) times to authenticate, which opens up the potential for a denial of service. Instead, we just punt and say underscores don't work.
Special characters don't carry over because MediaWiki encodes them differently than MyBB does, so you end up with the usernames not matching up for the purposes of checking passwords. This is a classic "why u no use UTF-8" issue.
MediaWiki uses a binary store, while MyBB uses UTF-16. The net result is that anything outside of standard ASCII tends to give the plugin heartburn.Underscores don't work right because, in the MediaWiki world, underscores and spaces are the same thing. MyBB, of course, cares a lot about underscores. The plugin gets called a couple of times during the authentication process and gets both the raw username (whatever you typed in) and the cooked one (with the underscore replaced by a space) at different points. Since there's no way to disambiguate the two, we're left with a curious situation where we'd have to check the MyBB database 2^(number of underscores) times to authenticate, which opens up the potential for a denial of service. Instead, we just punt and say underscores don't work.
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