Invalid characters in Ukrainian
Hello. I'm trying to create a new place in Ukrainian language, but I got "The name contains an invalid character. Display names can only contain letters". The problem is, that in Ukrainian language symbol " ` " or just " ' " is used in words, including names of places. Removing this character will affect to the reading of the name (sometimes you will not be able to read the word at all). Is it possible to solve this problem?
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Looks like you found a bug in the system.
Hawaiian is another language that uses a lot of apostrophes and these are found in the database:
But if a Family Tree user tries to enter such a name, it is rejected (I copied by test name directly from the database:
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This may be a problem of multiple Unicode characters that represent " ` " or " ' ". I have alerted our software developers to this potential problem. If you wish to try to enter the name Алад'їн as I have entered it here (with an acceptable " ' " character) it should work. (It did work for me.)
...Correction, it works for me in a different editing section of the website, to which I have access. It appears that the "Suggest A New Place" process is not dealing with the " ' " in the same way. I will work with software developers to get this fixed.
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