Funny behavior when typing referenced user names
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During an answer to a post I had a funny experience with a reference to one of our fellows.
When you like to reference one of the other users you can start typing with the '@' sign and you will get a pull-down list with suggestions.
My guess is that it doesn ot like special characters such as '-' and possibly others.
I tried to reference @J.Hilk but when hitting the proper entry in the pull-down list the user's name was changed to @J-Hilk
When placing the cursor now after the hyphen the user's name with dot does not show up anymore.Possibly this is triggered by some keybord drivers or whatever and may not be a general problem.
I am on windows 10 64 bit with a Swiss keyboard and a Swiss-German keyboard driver. -
@koahnig underscore is a valid identifier letter in programming languages, while dots and hyphens are not.
could that be the reason?
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@aha_1980
Could be depending on the origin of the problem. Just checked because it is a character outside of the traditional letters and digits and its keyboard location is also variable.@koahnig said in Funny behavior when typing referenced user names:
Could be depending on the origin of the problem. Just checked because it is a character outside of the traditional letters and digits and its keyboard location is also variable.
NodeBB escapes some symbols (like spaces and dots). However notifications and such should work okay, so as far as I know it's only a cosmetic issue.
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Well
I don‘t think it matters much, I did get a notification for both ways of spelling 🤔 -
@koahnig said in Funny behavior when typing referenced user names:
Could be depending on the origin of the problem. Just checked because it is a character outside of the traditional letters and digits and its keyboard location is also variable.
NodeBB escapes some symbols (like spaces and dots). However notifications and such should work okay, so as far as I know it's only a cosmetic issue.
@kshegunov said in Funny behavior when typing referenced user names:
@koahnig said in Funny behavior when typing referenced user names:
Could be depending on the origin of the problem. Just checked because it is a character outside of the traditional letters and digits and its keyboard location is also variable.
NodeBB escapes some symbols (like spaces and dots). However notifications and such should work okay, so as far as I know it's only a cosmetic issue.
It is for sure not important enough for a bug report. And I wouldn't ask anyone to change the user name because of this.
