1133844 - Stop sanitising the accent out of my name

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Engagement :: Mozilla Hacks, task)

Description

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

Attachment: sole's last name, accented as it's meant to be

My last name has an accented word, (look at the screenshot of my profile in wp-admin) but the theme or *something* in WordPress is taking it out.

I want my accent back! :-P

Comment 1

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Moving the Mozilla Hacks component.

Comment 2

[Craig Cook (:craigcook)]

The display name was using an unaccented version for some reason. I suspect your name may have first been entered that way and later updated, but the display name wasn't updated at the same time. Fixed now.

Comment 3

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

Yesss that's awesome! thanks a lot Craig :)
It's a bit of a bummer I can't change the display name myself, but it should be fine now.

Comment 4

[Craig Cook (:craigcook)]

Attachment: WordPress user name fields

You can change your display name at https://hacks.mozilla.org/wp-admin/profile.php. It's a separate field with options derived from your other names, all of which are editable. Though when you change one of the other fields the display name won't update automatically unless you select from the updated options, and I assume it just didn't get updated when your accent was first corrected.

WordPress requires a unique 'nickname' as an identifier in order to force all users to have a readable name and not just a numeric ID (though I suppose your nickname could be a number). It defaults to your email address (also required) but you could easily change it to "supersole" or any unique nickname you like and use that as your display name.

Also note that because this is a multisite WordPress setup, your profile on Hacks will be the same across all Mozilla blogs.