A thread relating to using special characters can be found at:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/forum/resources/Forum12/HTML/002413.html
Also I'm not sure if you are using the Big5 coding, but if so, token came up with this solution:
quote by token:
I wanted to convert the user online input big5 chinese code into Unicode into dbman.
Here is what I've done, and it works great.. haven't had any trouble yet....... on each of your html, just after </title>, state the following:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=big5">
This might not have anything to do with your usernames, but may help otherwise, I hope.
Unoffical DBMan FAQ
http://webmagic.hypermart.net/dbman/
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/forum/resources/Forum12/HTML/002413.html
Also I'm not sure if you are using the Big5 coding, but if so, token came up with this solution:
quote by token:
I wanted to convert the user online input big5 chinese code into Unicode into dbman.
Here is what I've done, and it works great.. haven't had any trouble yet....... on each of your html, just after </title>, state the following:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=big5">
This might not have anything to do with your usernames, but may help otherwise, I hope.
Unoffical DBMan FAQ
http://webmagic.hypermart.net/dbman/