687183 - Support spaces and exotic characters in names

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Participation Infrastructure :: Phonebook, defect)

Description

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

Because Mozillians might as well come from one of the countries that supports additional characters, we should make sure to support those foreign characters in names.

Comment 1

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Agreed. This makes sense, but since we're going to have a small group of locales in 1.0, let's move it back to a release that probably will have enough locales where this is a need.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Accented characters like "é", "ö", "ü" in names currently stand out with a different font, looking bold.

Comment 3

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

(In reply to Aleksej [:Aleksej] from comment #2)
> Accented characters like "é", "ö", "ü" in names currently stand out with a
> different font, looking bold.

I think that might just be the font we're using. If it doesn't have the characters, it's probably falling back.

Comment 4

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

I filed bug 787099 for the missing characters in the font (comment 2). I also found another issue that I suspect is related to "exotic" characters, which I field in bug 787098.

Since this seems better suited to be a tracking bug, I was then going to file a separate bug related to the space issue. But it seems that spaces in names are supported just fine. (I was able to add my middle initial by putting a space in my first name.)

Comment 5

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Triage

Full fonts were resolved in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779948

Comment 6

[Vuyisile Ndlovu [:terrameijar]]

Verified

Added a name with accented characters and spaces and this has been fixed.

Comment 7

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

Verified as per comment 6.