User profile redirects infinitely if you have no ascii characters in the name?

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Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

Indeed, some investigation shows the page to redirect to itself, while my page, https://stackoverflow.com/users/126214/ redirects to https://stackoverflow.com/users/126214/lennart-regebro

Thus I suspect that this user, who has no ascii character in his name, has triggered a small bug. :)

Nice catch, it'll be interesting to know what happened there! — Benjol, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:51
I don't believe it has anything to do with the presence of ASCII chars in the display name - I just changed my Meta display name to my Chinese name, and I believe you should still be able to access it. — Yi Jiang, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:04

Jeff Atwood · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-07 10:28:15Z

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We no longer attempt to redirect when the name slug is empty.

answered Jan 7, 2011 at 10:28

Jeff Atwood

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It seems like this bug has found its way back: chinese.stackexchange.com/users/67/…
– NullUserException อ_อ
Dec 15, 2011 at 7:53
(it does not work even if I remove the display name, eg: chinese.stackexchange.com/users/67 )
– NullUserException อ_อ
Dec 15, 2011 at 7:54
@null during private beta things work differently because access is restricted. If it is a problem when the site is public, then let us know.
– Jeff Atwood
Dec 15, 2011 at 8:08
The issue NullUserExceptiom reports was simply a code bug related to the switch-over to the new user profile, and would affect all sites that use international URL support (on user profiles), and was not just because of the private beta. It got fixed a few days ago.
– Marc Gravell
Dec 17, 2011 at 11:24

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