From 6fb772944cf829a126c82b6404295a6d8867f8dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wyatt Johnson <wyattjoh@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:55:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat: expanded allowed characters in usernames to support
 accents (#2585)

---
 src/core/common/helpers/validate.spec.ts | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 src/core/common/helpers/validate.ts      |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 src/core/common/helpers/validate.spec.ts

diff --git a/src/core/common/helpers/validate.spec.ts b/src/core/common/helpers/validate.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..74b1719e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/common/helpers/validate.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import { USERNAME_REGEX } from "./validate";
+
+describe("USERNAME_REGEX", () => {
+  it("validates username characters", () => {
+    const usernames = [
+      "bill",
+      "bill.smith",
+      "bill_smith",
+      "bill.smith13",
+      "áki",
+      "åki.smith",
+      "åki.smith13",
+      "åki_smith",
+    ];
+
+    usernames.forEach(username => {
+      expect(USERNAME_REGEX.test(username)).toEqual(true);
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/core/common/helpers/validate.ts b/src/core/common/helpers/validate.ts
index 42829adfb..a1789f1d8 100644
--- a/src/core/common/helpers/validate.ts
+++ b/src/core/common/helpers/validate.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import url from "url-regex";
 
-export const USERNAME_REGEX = new RegExp(/^[a-zA-Z0-9_.]+$/);
+export const USERNAME_REGEX = new RegExp(/^[a-zA-ZÀ-ÖØ-öø-ÿ0-9_.]+$/);
 export const USERNAME_MAX_LENGTH = 30;
 export const USERNAME_MIN_LENGTH = 3;