UTF-8 not supported in user names about miaou HOT 3 CLOSED

The fact you can't have a "é" in a username is a feature.
User names must be easy to type by everybody, especially for pings.

I understand this might not be ideal. Discussions on this point are still open on the chat.

The fact the proposed username was "AndrLc233m" looks like a bug.

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Maybe we should allow UTF-8 and have some sort of TAB completion for usernames, for example if someone can't type a character, he just types the first few chars of the name and uses TAB to complete the rest of it, including the "special" characters.

That's currently in place at StackExchange (in their comments and chat) where UTF-8 is allowed in names and everybody is happy with it.

And by the way the weird "Lc233" in the name is actually random, I've tried registering a second time and there was something else in its place.

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There's already tab autocompletion for usernames in Miaou. This doesn't really change the problem.

The difference is that SO isn't interested in preventing impersonation (everybody may sign in the chat with the name of another user) while it's a fundamental feature of Miaou.

The reason there are random chars is that when the username you get from your OAuth is too short, it's completed with random chars. But "Andr" isn't so short so I might improve this.

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