Sorry in advance for not answering your question, but why would you want to do the above? If you want the username to be unique, just make sure it is unique. I can not imagine in which context it would be helpful to decline a certain username because an existing one looks like it.JAB Creations wrote:In example "JAB Creations" and "jabcreations" are essentially the same thing though I want to prevent this to preserve the uniqueness of each user name.
"JAB Creations" and "jabcreations" are not essentially the same thing, they are very different. I can image a policy that states that only [a-z] is allowed would do the same? Forgive me my ignorance; I just don't see why you're creating a problem that doesn't exist?
Just a quick example to justify my twadling above: taking a person named "Simon Eduard Gent" (yes, that could happen in the Netherlands