Names do not allow non-alphabetic characters

[guanyz]

In the real world, names can have non-alphabetic characters in them. However, this is not allowed in the app.

[nus-pe-bot]

Team's Response

Reason stated in the UG. While it is acknowledged that some names may have special characters, the chosen constraints are sufficient for intended use cases.

Items for the Tester to Verify

:question: Issue response

Team chose [response.NotInScope]

• [x] I disagree

Reason for disagreement: Though this is stated as a known limitation, this still falls within the scope of the intended use case; it is intended to be used as a housing management system in a Residential College / in NUS, which can involve ​people with non-alphabetic characters in their name (e.g. - is fairly common). Consider, for example, the case of bulk-adding data to the app from, say, a list of resident names; this restriction would almost certainly mess with the process and cause inconvenience, though it is entirely within the suggested use case.

It is a severity.Low bug because it occurs rarely and causes minor inconvenience (e.g. the user must substitute the characters for spaces, or the like), but it is still a bug.

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