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Add support for user names with apostrophes
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While installing Solus, when it comes time to make a user, names with apostrophes result in an error, stating "Invalid Name"

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Name or username? Usernames cannot contain apostrophes.

Name. For example, my last name contains an apostrophe, and I cannot use it in my name

Perhaps we could just replace all ' (U+0027) characters with ’ (U+201B) in realname since that is the typographically correct symbol to use in names anyway. Then we don't have to worry about it colliding with a Python quote character.

I have implemented a minor fix for this by implementing what tomocafe suggested.
However I have to complete some testing, and then I will submit a PR.

https://github.com/getsolus/os-installer/compare/master...IdlePhysicist:apostrophe-users

DataDrake triaged this task as Wishlist priority.Sep 6 2019, 2:37 PM
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Moved to GitHub for the new installer https://github.com/getsolus/solus-installer/issues/19