Does Moodle support Arabic for the user name?

Does Moodle support Arabic for the user name?

by Abdelmonim Mahmoud -
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I tried to make the username in Arabic, but I did not succeed? Is this a problem I have? Because I do not think that Moodle does not support this because it already supports the Arabic language in translating all the contents of its system
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Re: Does Moodle support Arabic for the user name?

by Justin Hunt -
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I think that Moodle does support Arabic usernames. I just tried with my test site , and this username: مودل العربي (arabic)
(I copied it from somewhere here)

And I was able to login ok.

So , on your site, what does "not succeed" look like?

Do you get an error message?
Does the user creation form not validate?
Or does it simply not let you log in after you made it ?
... or something else?

My suspicion would be that your database is not set up correctly. Follow the links on this page for your database server type to see how it should be set up:
https://docs.moodle.org/403/en/Installing_Moodle#Create_an_empty_database

Of course it might also be something really simple like you messed up the password ..
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Re: Does Moodle support Arabic for the user name?

by Abdelmonim Mahmoud -
Thank you very much for your interest and help. This is a picture of the problem I encountered
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Re: Does Moodle support Arabic for the user name?

by Leon Stringer -
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Under Site administration > General > Security > Site security settings enable Allow extended characters in usernames.

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Re: Does Moodle support Arabic for the user name?

by Abdelmonim Mahmoud -

Thank you very much Leon for helping me 🌷

Best regards