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I can see validate_user() calls sanitize_user() with strict argument as true, which means uppercase letters are not allowed too.

In source code, I found this comment

// If strict, reduce to ASCII for max portability.
    if ( $strict )
        $username = preg_replace( '|[^a-z0-9 _.\-@]|i', '', $username );

I would like to know how does this affect portability?

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The i modifier in the regex pattern makes it case-insensitive, just something to note. – t31os Apr 8 '11 at 14:58
so what does this regex actually do here? – Ashfame Apr 9 '11 at 19:56
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Replaces anything not a-z(upper or lower), 0-9(ie. any number), an underscore, period, hyphen or an @ symbol.. – t31os Apr 9 '11 at 23:21
so how does it block the uppercase alphabets then? :S – Ashfame Apr 10 '11 at 14:25
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@Ashfame: actually, the function doesn't block uppercase letters. In the comment above the functions, WP writes: "If $strict is true, only alphanumeric characters (as well as _, space, ., -, * @) are returned.". That means uppercase letter are accepted. In fact, I have a WP where I have the username with uppercase letter, and no problems at all. – Rilwis Jun 7 '11 at 13:44
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Uppercase characters are not blocked in usernames on single site setups.

Uppercase characters ARE blocked in usernames on multisite setups. The wpmu_validate_user_signup function forces lowercase a-z and numbers 0-9 only.

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Off hand, I suppose it would be so you can use validate_user's results in a URL or a $_GET string. I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons as well, I guess I don't know what they mean by max portability...

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yes, I am interested in knowing about how this affects portability. anything else like a variable from URL can be configured to converted to lowercase and then made it work. A bit extra work, but will work. – Ashfame Apr 8 '11 at 12:27
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If You are not allowing users to register site, you may disable 'uppercase' restriction from MS install, just add into your theme functions.php file:

remove_action( 'sanitize_user', 'strtolower' );
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