Seasons greetings to all the luverly XOOPs peeps!!!

I have a terrible problem since I upgraded my XOOPs site yesterday to the XOOPS 2.2.3 Final....

ALL of the user names in my existing site database have spaces in the name (we register people by their real names, eg: Jack Frost) and I tried to edit a few of the user profiles and got error messages about not allowing a space in the name.

I cannot understand why this would have changed with such an upgrade, when my previous XOOPs version was fine about allowing a space in the names. Neither can I see any options in the new system control panel to allow this and I have my "level of strictness for username filtering" set to Light.

The only information I could find about spaces in usernames was the hack mentioned on this page here:

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=19297&forum=14&post_id=82466#forumpost82466

...but I am reluctant to try this since it is an old post about an older XOOPS version.

I have to get my website back online by tomorrow so it is urgent I find a solution to this problem or I will have to revert back to my previous XOOPs version, as I am unwilling to manually go through every member account and edit their profiles to add an underscore where the space is.

Is there anybody who can help please?

Thanks for reading.

OK I since haven't had any response to this thread so I was forced to revert back to my old version 2.0.13 and my client is moaning at me about it all week.

Please isn't there anyone out there who can help me find a way to allow name spaces in my user and display names for this latest XOOPs 2.2.3?

I really really need to have this option in order to upgrade.

Thanks again,
Z