Title: Username unicode problem
Last modified: October 18, 2017

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# Username unicode problem

 *  Resolved [alexdex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexdex/)
 * (@alexdex)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-unicode-problem/)
 * Hi, the plugin is great but i have a problem.
    My file csv contain like username,
   name in thai language and english I can import only the name in english, for 
   the other give me error. I try to create the csv in UNICODE format and also in
   UTF-8 but nothing change, please can you help me? I am using the standard import

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 *  Plugin Author [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * (@carazo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-unicode-problem/#post-9597134)
 * [@alexdex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexdex/),
 * Good morning, try with LibreOffice, save the CSV using this spreadsheet and tell
   me.
 * It seems to be some charset problem.
 *  Thread Starter [alexdex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexdex/)
 * (@alexdex)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-unicode-problem/#post-9598651)
 * Hi, so i try a lot of way, i try now like you told me with LibreOffice.
    Now 
   i have this error:
 * Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in wp-content/plugins/import-
   users-from-csv-with-meta/importer.php on line 79
 *  Plugin Author [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * (@carazo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-unicode-problem/#post-9598685)
 * [@alexdex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexdex/),
 * Now it seems that the CSV is broken.
 * Could you try to create a user with an UTF-8 username manually?
 *  Thread Starter [alexdex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexdex/)
 * (@alexdex)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-unicode-problem/#post-9598829)
 * Hi, i try do create manually and does no work:
 * ERROR: Please enter a username.
 * ERROR: This username is invalid because it uses illegal characters. Please enter
   a valid username.
 *  Plugin Author [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * (@carazo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-unicode-problem/#post-9598854)
 * [@alexdex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexdex/),
 * So the problem is not from the plugin: this is a WordPress problem.
 *  Thread Starter [alexdex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexdex/)
 * (@alexdex)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-unicode-problem/#post-9600333)
 * Yes is wordpress, i do not found any solution, thanks in every case for your 
   help
 *  Plugin Author [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * (@carazo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-unicode-problem/#post-9600363)
 * Ask to the core developers.
 * Maybe they can give you a solution.

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 * Last reply from: [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-unicode-problem/#post-9600363)
 * Status: resolved