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@@ -160,6 +160,14 @@ The username in the third parameter is optional. You can pass `null` there if yo
 
 If you want to enforce unique usernames, on the other hand, simply call `registerWithUniqueUsername` instead of `register`, and be prepared to catch the `DuplicateUsernameException`.
 
+**Note:** When accepting and managing usernames, you may want to exclude non-printing control characters and certain printable special characters, as in the character class `[\x00-\x1f\x7f\/:\\]`. In order to do so, you could wrap the call to `Auth#register` or `Auth#registerWithUniqueUsername` inside a conditional branch, for example by only accepting usernames when the following condition is satisfied:
+
+```php
+if (\preg_match('/[\x00-\x1f\x7f\/:\\\\]/', $username) === 0) {
+    // ...
+}
+```
+
 For email verification, you should build an URL with the selector and token and send it to the user, e.g.:
 
 ```php