{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/2974","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/2974/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/2974/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/2974/events","html_url":"https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/2974","id":149929094,"number":2974,"title":"Help with username and name issues for non-english users","user":{"login":"etcy","id":17268605,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/17268605?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/etcy","html_url":"https://github.com/etcy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/etcy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/etcy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/etcy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/etcy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/etcy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/etcy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/etcy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/etcy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/etcy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-04-21T01:11:25Z","updated_at":"2016-04-30T00:03:26Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi, \r\n\r\nMy team (about 150 members) has been testing mattermost for a few weeks but respond is not so good because they have no japanese localizations. Before this we were testing some XMPP chat server/clients.\r\n\r\nI found rocket.chat and I think its a great piece of work. It has multi-language support out of the box and most of the features we are looking for.\r\n\r\nHowever, after testing locally, I could not push it out for a team test because I cannot find a way to allow the name to be displayed.\r\n\r\nI think this has been discussed somewhere before but the issue does not seem to be solved. It really makes sense for any chat program to display a name/nick that is user defined. skype, openfire(xmpp), mattermost all feature this. Without this, non english speakers find it impossible to find the people. Not to mention too many duplicates in username if we use their full names. eg tanaka ryo1, tanaka ryo2, tanaka ryo3...doesn't make sense.\r\n\r\nI read in previous post somewhere that username is unique and therefore preferred but you can achieve the same goals with a user defined nick or name. \r\n\r\nfor asians, many people have the exact same spelling but different Kanji characters\r\ntanaka ryo1 = 田中リョ\r\ntanaka ryo2 = 田中侶\r\ntanaka ryo3 = 田中虜\r\n\r\nalso for my team, on my existing chat, we have a rule for nickname as such:\r\nname-subteam/role-extension number\r\nwith this simple rule, even when full name/kanji is exactly the same, we can tell whos whos\r\n 田中リョ-CG-1234\r\n 田中リョ-PRG-3245\r\n\r\nSorry for the long post. I hope someone can advice on this.\r\n\r\nThank you!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/comments/215911270","html_url":"https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/2974#issuecomment-215911270","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/2974","id":215911270,"user":{"login":"marceloschmidt","id":1986378,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1986378?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/marceloschmidt","html_url":"https://github.com/marceloschmidt","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marceloschmidt/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marceloschmidt/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marceloschmidt/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marceloschmidt/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marceloschmidt/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marceloschmidt/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marceloschmidt/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marceloschmidt/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marceloschmidt/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-04-30T00:03:26Z","updated_at":"2016-04-30T00:03:26Z","body":"Hello @etcy! We're happy to support you on this one.\r\n\r\nSince we have no asians on our team, it is very difficult to solve problems such as this one, so if you could stay with us and guide us through, that will be awesome!\r\n\r\nHave you tried changing the `UTF8 Names Validation` setting under Administration / General? \r\n\r\n![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1986378/14932510/c87510dc-0e4d-11e6-9f73-3ccbdd8189a4.png)\r\n\r\n\r\nThis setting was created to allow people to set their usernames based on a specified regular expression.\r\nOurs is currently set to `[0-9a-zA-Z-_.]+` but you could set yours to `[^\\x00-\\x7F]+` for example.\r\n\r\nLet me know if that solves it, or if we need to further work on this."}}