vanillaforums/Garden — Issue #1296: 'Problem' characters in User Name
Author: BeyMelamed
Created: 2012-01-24 15:59:39+00:00
State: open

VF allows the user to enter any character in the Name field when entering a new user.
However, if you use (for example) a hash mark (example: 'User # 1') and save the record you will get an error when clicking on the name in order to get to its activity.
Following cursory tests, I did not encounter issues with other characters such as ! @ $ % ^ & * ( ) =