minor tweak to utf8 usernames after some testing of the underlying encode/decode funations. This probably isn't critical and I do not have a failure case but just trying to cover all bases.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/channel.php b/include/channel.php
index 4bf490bf0..42a392e8e 100644
--- a/include/channel.php
+++ b/include/channel.php
@@ -2240,6 +2240,11 @@ function get_zcard_embed($channel, $observer_hash = '', $args = array()) {
  *   - false if no channel with $nick was found
  */
 function channelx_by_nick($nick) {
+
+	// If we are provided a Unicode nickname convert to IDN
+
+	$nick = punify($nick);
+
 	$r = q("SELECT * FROM channel left join xchan on channel_hash = xchan_hash WHERE channel_address = '%s'  and channel_removed = 0 LIMIT 1",
 		dbesc($nick)
 	);
diff --git a/include/text.php b/include/text.php
index 55fc49560..411576fa6 100644
--- a/include/text.php
+++ b/include/text.php
@@ -3344,6 +3344,9 @@ function featured_sort($a,$b) {
 }
 
 
+// Be aware that punify will convert domain names and pathnames
+
+
 function punify($s) {
 	require_once('vendor/simplepie/simplepie/idn/idna_convert.class.php');
 	$x = new idna_convert(['encoding' => 'utf8']);
@@ -3351,6 +3354,8 @@ function punify($s) {
 
 }
 
+// Be aware that unpunify will only convert domain names and not pathnames
+
 function unpunify($s) {
 	require_once('vendor/simplepie/simplepie/idn/idna_convert.class.php');
 	$x = new idna_convert(['encoding' => 'utf8']);