I could only imagine what the default:‘friend’ actually is on the backend.

  • lime!@feddit.nu
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    1 month ago

    that format would mangle so many names. my legal name is my middle name, so it would fail. my grandfather’s first name was Jan Erik (with a space, it’s still a single name), it would fail on that. i know a guy named Göran, it would fail on that (ö is not an accented o, it is a separate letter, but it will slugify to o due to browsers being browsers).

    actually, come to think of it, wouldn’t this also mangle the default due to ‘friend’ not being properly capitalized?

    basically, we’ve learned nothing since ‘falsehoods programmers believe about names’. that was 14 years ago.