Name parameters too restrictive

[nus-pe-bot]

The application only accepts names with the following restrictions (quoted from the User Guide):

• Names must contain at least 1 word, and at most 1 space is allowed between words.
• Only English alphabets and the symbols / , ' , - are accepted and cannot be surrounded by spaces. e.g. Smith - Jones is invalid, but Smith-Jones is valid

These restrictions are too restrictive. Some reasons are the following:

• It's not uncommon for users to accidentally type in an extra space.
• One of my CS2103T group members has the name 'Izzah (with no preceding letter before the ' character); I can't add her name into the application.
• Names containing special characters outside /, ', and - are becoming more common: e.g., Elon Musk who named his child with the character Æ.

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_{[original: nus-cs2103-AY2223S1/pe-interim#4288] [original labels: type.FeatureFlaw severity.Medium]}

[fannyjian]

Team's Response

Such unique names are very rare and hence would cause very minor and occasional inconveniences to few users. It is also not practical to consider every combination of names as this might mean that we have to use strings without any regex for names.

Duplicate status (if any):

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