This is so minor I almost didn't post it, but maybe it's worth doing:
A few users have names which are not friendly to keyboards which are designed primarily for English characters. I have no trouble whatsoever with that. An even smaller subset of users have such names with such characters as the first character of their name.
As an example, the user currently named ಠ_ಠ Won't
My request (for an admittedly tiny base - but of some consequence, considering who my example user above is) is that the auto-complete for @-replies also considers the user's first plain-ASCII-compatible character; w
, in the case of user ಠ_ಠ Won't Or actually, I suppose it would be the underscore (_) in this case. What if a user has a name with all 'special' characters? Well, that makes my request more weak, certainly. It simply would not cover such situations. (a space should never be considered, IMO, as that would needlessly pop up the auto complete when someone was merely trying to type an @
alone)
I envision the most useful situation for this would be mobile users, where it might be a bit more complex to copy-paste the user's name and/or type in the 'special' characters.
EDIT: Arjan notes in a comment below that in the 'slug' portion of the URL for Won't
, his username is represented simply as wont
. It seems that this might be a logical place to take from for this, at least for considering what characters to 'exclude' from being considered as the first "regular ASCII character".
@ಠ_ಠWon't
not only triggers auto-complete, but indeed also notifies him. And so does@爱国者
for that user-without-a-slug.)