Question

I’ve notice django admin UI does not allow use name with characters that are not English.
I need to use Hebrew characters for user names.

Someone try it?

Thank you,
Ido.

Answer 1

Django auth module admin limits username to be matching r'^[\w.@+-]+$'. You need to replace the default forms inside ModelAdmin instance: UserAdmin.form and UserAdmin.add_form, like:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import User, UserAdmin as UserAdmin_

admin.site.unregister(User)

class UserAdmin(UserAdmin_):
    add_form = ... # customized form based on auth.forms.UserCreationForm
    form = ... # customized form based on auth.forms.UserChangeForm

admin.site.register(User, UserAdmin)