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Printable Characters in Member Names #214

Open MrPliffles opened 3 months ago

MrPliffles commented 3 months ago
2024-03-14 19_48_07-Post News Article - TIE Corps

If non-printable characters can't be used in news post titles, should we allow them in names? Can work around it by not using the member's name in the title of a news post, but it might make things easier in the long run if we prevented them from putting a non-printable character in their name to begin with (the join form).

turtlexiv commented 1 month ago

Currently assessing this. As a primarily English language organization, having member names that use characters most people can't readily type seems like a pain. This is admittedly somewhat anti-internationalization but there are practical considerations when we're referring to member names.

The code accepts unicode, so currently you could use emojis or other dumb shit in your name that we obviously wouldn't continue to allow.

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Additional feedback is welcome.

MrPliffles commented 1 month ago

My only real concern is having a member's name that we can't include in a headline without changing its format (and thus it not being the same name, really). If the headline field rejects all accented characters like the ones our international members might user, maybe there are two changes to make?