diff --git a/Emby.Server.Implementations/Library/UserManager.cs b/Emby.Server.Implementations/Library/UserManager.cs
index efb1ef4a50..7e2419b680 100644
--- a/Emby.Server.Implementations/Library/UserManager.cs
+++ b/Emby.Server.Implementations/Library/UserManager.cs
@@ -216,10 +216,10 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Library
 
         public static bool IsValidUsername(string username)
         {
-            //This is some regex that matches only on unicode "word" characters, as well as -, _ and @
-            //In theory this will cut out most if not all 'control' characters which should help minimize any weirdness
+            // This is some regex that matches only on unicode "word" characters, as well as -, _ and @
+            // In theory this will cut out most if not all 'control' characters which should help minimize any weirdness
             // Usernames can contain letters (a-z + whatever else unicode is cool with), numbers (0-9), dashes (-), underscores (_), apostrophes ('), and periods (.)
-            return Regex.IsMatch(username, "^[\\w-'._@]*$");
+            return Regex.IsMatch(username, @"^[\w\-'._@]*$");
         }
 
         private static bool IsValidUsernameCharacter(char i)