Pending Highlight users on their ID

[Felucia]

Suggestion is pretty simple. In one of my rooms, it's essential for users to highlight others, but this is a difficult task for mobile users when they have to deal with names that contain a bunch of aesthetic special characters that they are unable to reproduce. Sure, copy/paste offers a solution, but I don't think there'd be any repercussions for users highlighting on their user ID on top of their display name.

 

[Adeleine]

I thought this already was the case. Do I misunderstand what you mean?

edit: i told felucia elsewhere, but for thread readers, I did not have any highlights enabled

 

[Felucia]

I thought this already was the case. Do I misunderstand what you mean?
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I'm unsure how the code works but it doesn't target the ID exactly. Is Adeleine explicitly on your highlights list, or does it only filter certain characters?

Edit: Dug through the code, highlights are a pretty cool system that make a lot of characters optional. The only required characters for highlights are ^ ~- which includes spaces like in my name, but not whatever your name was.

if (/[^\ -\~]/.test(escaped[i])) {
    escaped = escaped.slice(0, i) + ',' + escaped.slice(i + 1);
}

at client.js line 168.

I guess my new suggestion would be to make those characters optional too