So, I tried to update my profile with my hyphenated last name, only to see a message that the field only supports letters and spaces. I totally understand preventing characters that can be used for an injection attack in user-supplied data, but hyphenated names are trivial to support. Admittedly, it's only a minor inconvenience, but support for my name is the kind of thing I've come to expect from modern websites.
Injection attacks shouldn't be an issue--I assume that Curse understands how to sanitize database inputs! More likely this was just an oversight.
Name fields should support hyphens and apostrophes at the very least. Unicode is more of a headache, but would be nice for non-U.S. users who may have accents in their names.
Evan Grantham-Brown
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So, I tried to update my profile with my hyphenated last name, only to see a message that the field only supports letters and spaces. I totally understand preventing characters that can be used for an injection attack in user-supplied data, but hyphenated names are trivial to support. Admittedly, it's only a minor inconvenience, but support for my name is the kind of thing I've come to expect from modern websites.
Roger Alix-Gaudreau
Injection attacks shouldn't be an issue--I assume that Curse understands how to sanitize database inputs! More likely this was just an oversight.
Name fields should support hyphens and apostrophes at the very least. Unicode is more of a headache, but would be nice for non-U.S. users who may have accents in their names.
Evan Grantham-Brown