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Paradox21

2013-08-20, 04:24 AM
I've seen forums where someone copy's an admins name and adds an invisible character to "impersonate" them. What are these characters (alt codes), so I can prevent them from being used on my forum?

.m.

2013-08-20, 04:30 AM
you can restrict user names to use alpha numeric characters by using this plugin

HTML

2013-08-20, 01:58 PM
ALT+0173.
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