id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
12823	Blog name is unnecessarily sanitized	nbachiyski		"When validating a blog information on multisite signup the blog name is sanitized using {{{sanitize_user()}}}. After that there is a check if the blog name matches {{{[a-z0-9]+}}} and if it doesn't match it is rejected.

In this case there is no need of sanitizing the blog name before the check. Also, sanitizing sometimes confuses users, because their blog name seems accepted, but in fact a modified version is used, not what they entered.

For example, enter {{{bábá}}} as blog name and after sanitizing it will become {{{baba}}}. Or enter something in cyrillic like {{{баба}}}. After sanitization it will become an empty string and the error message will be as if you didn't enter anything.

All these make for a confusing user experience."	defect (bug)	closed	high	3.0	Multisite		normal	fixed	has-patch signup ux