Unable to add people with uncommon names and Wrong error message displayed

[nus-pe-bot]

Expected:

• Able to add names of any person.
• Any invalid name should be stated as an error message

Actual:

• Unable to add people with uncommon names, such as Elon musk’s baby’s name “X Æ A-12”, or with any special characters in their name (any symbols or numbers)
• On top of that, even though the command used was of valid format, the message wrongly states it is invalid instead of stating what is wrong, which is confusing.
• I agree this is a very uncommon case, but it is still a valid case as it can happen, and the message is wrong. This is why I only assigned it Low instead of Medium.

Steps to reproduce:

Enter person X Æ A-12 /create p:91119111 e:notor@notor.com t:Loves Dancing g:1

Screenshots:

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_{[original: nus-cs2103-AY2122S1/pe-interim#3230] [original labels: severity.Low type.FunctionalityBug]}

[kaixin-hc]

Team's Response

Specificity of error message: Error messages can be correct but not specific enough (e.g., it says the input is 'invalid' without giving the reason, or gives too many possible reasons without pointing out the specific reason). These cases can be considered type.FeatureFlaw unless making it more specific will take a lot more effort, in which case there is a chance to argue it to be response.NotInScope.

1) it is stated that names should be alphanumeric with spaces/dash/and fullstop. Hence it is clearly not supported.

2) due to the special characters, it will take a lot more effort to correctly give a more specific error message in the parser

Duplicate status (if any):

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