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2 years ago Team's Response
While we understand there are extreme cases with people's names including special characters, our application is made intentionally not to do so (as stated in UG). This is because accepting special characters will make it extremely hard to check for validation for names. Despite a few people with special characters, most of the people, especially the CS2103T students (our target audience), more than 99% of us do not have special characters.
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- [x] I disagree
Reason for disagreement: #### Rationale for disagreement:
Usually, names in applications are not restricted to alphanumeric numbers. since it is very common for people to have names e.g. (e.g D'aaron fox, willie cauley-stein, Amelia-Rose etc.)
Not allowing special characters can prevent users from entering their actual names and can cause inconveniences to the user.
Hence, I believe that not supporting special characters e.g. - ' which is a possible occurrence in names is justified to be considered as a Low feature flaw.
Rationale for Low:
As mentioned in the module website, this restriction causes inconvenience in rare situations and hence it is justified as a severity.Low feature flaw bug.
Furthermore, most products/forms do not restrict special characters in the name for the reason it is too restrictive to do so, since it is possible one's name may contain such characters e.g. ' and - are common characters in names
Justification:
Unable to add valid names such as Elon Musk's child's name.