From 5945ab1a0aa3e5dcf0d3326d75db4fa0bb08cc5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah Chase <nchase@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:11:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] relax username validation (#413)

this commit allows for matching accented characters, dots, '@' symbol,
and other important things.
---
 public/src/utils.js |  2 +-
 tests/utils.js      | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/utils.js

diff --git a/public/src/utils.js b/public/src/utils.js
index c99fbb99a3..6b9343ee95 100644
--- a/public/src/utils.js
+++ b/public/src/utils.js
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 		},
 
 		isUserNameValid: function(name) {
-			return (name && name !== "" && (/^[a-zA-Z0-9 _-]+$/.test(name)));
+			return (name && name !== "" && (/^['"\s\-.*0-9\u00BF-\u1FFF\u2C00-\uD7FF\w]+$/.test(name)));
 		},
 
 		isPasswordValid: function(password) {
diff --git a/tests/utils.js b/tests/utils.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..70643802f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/utils.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+var assert = require('assert'),
+	utils = require('./../public/src/utils.js');
+
+
+describe("Utility Methods", function(){
+	describe("username validation", function(){
+		it("accepts latin-1 characters", function(){
+			var username = "John\"'-. Doeäâèéë1234";
+			assert(utils.isUserNameValid(username), 'invalid username');
+		});
+	});
+});