Name does not allow special characters

[nus-pe-bot]

Action:

 I want to add my friend's name that contains special characters, eg s/o

Expected result/output:

 command success

Actual result/output:
 special characters are not allowed

Screenshot:



Suggestions: I think special characters should be allowed as some people do have them in their name. Some contacts might be saved as the in-game name, which have a even higher chance of having special characters in their name

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_{[original: nus-cs2103-AY2425S1/pe-interim#3159] [original labels: type.FeatureFlaw severity.Low]}

[JJtan2002]

Team's Response

This limitation was already acknowledged in our UG and something we can consider for the next interation.

At this stage, we provided a workaround for this issue by replacing special characters with whitespace.

This feature has a non-trivial implementation required due to the / character also being used as a delimiter for our command parameters, resulting in unexpected behaviors unless we further changed the parser.

Duplicate status (if any):

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