[Bug 35239] New: Filter out illegal user names as per RFC 2812

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35239

           Summary: Filter out illegal user names as per RFC 2812
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: git master
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: idle
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: debarshi.ray at gmail.com
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org


http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812#section-3.1.3

RFC 2812 defines usernames as:
user =  1*( %x01-09 / %x0B-0C / %x0E-1F / %x21-3F / %x41-FF )
          ; any octet except NUL, CR, LF, " " and "@"

However some IRC servers (eg., Freenode and GIMPNet) put in place other
restrictions. They do not like usernames starting with a leading underscore and
respond with a ERROR message.

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