What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Click "Register a new account". 2. Type a user-name. 3. Type a password containing letters with acute accents. example: "á", "áéíóú" 4. Click "Register".

or

5. Type a user-name.
6. Type a password like one of the above.
7. Click "Sign In"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expected an alert saying that you can't use those characters (when I first registered the password), or that I can sign in successfully to my newly-created account.

What I see is HTTP ERROR: 500

Problem accessing /auth/register. Reason:

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What changeset or version are you using? On what operating system? changeset - 766:88951b7f1ff1 Archlinux 64bit.

Joseph, any chance you could take a look? Assign back to me if not.

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nevermind the deleted comments.

Oh, jaosorior, if you would like to fix it please do! I can't assign the issue to you due to a technical limitation of this tracker, but go for it!

alright, fixed. To whom should I send the code to be reviewed?

here's the patch: http://codereview.waveprotocol.org/450001