Bug with special characters

I'm not sure if this is a bug or if its easily changeable, but I'll post it here just in case.

I once had a used called ".Sam.", whose accout I've had to rename because of the following conflict.

Whenever you clicked a link to his profile (i.e. from the memberlist or from a post), you'd be taken to the profile of the user called "Sam" instead. My site profile urls are structured like this: /members/user.html

If I typed this in manually, I'd get .Sam.'s profile: /members/.Sam..html; otherwise, I'd be taken to /members/Sam.html.

I know that the first example does not use correct file naming syntax, but it looks like it's necesarry if I want to keep this method of rewriting URLs.

What should I do to fix this? Is it a bug? Would it be better to disallow periods in usernames?

Hello,

here you go: Links to member profile pages: Rewrite problems with special chars

Thanks! I'll add that to my config file shortly.