Title: Empty usernames
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Empty usernames

 *  [bml13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bml13/)
 * (@bml13)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-usernames/)
 * Some Facebook users who has their names not in English alphabet (use Arabic for
   example ) will have empty username(just _) using facebook login service. that
   is because you initialize the user name from the display name (which is in Arabic)
   and then applying the sanitize_user wordpress function on it will remove all 
   the Arabic letters and endup with an empty username.
 * I suggest using the facebook username instead of the displayname
    if the username
   is not available, then use the first part of the email address.
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-usernames/)
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