# Mentioning problem with short usernames

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-problem-with-short-usernames/37170>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [2015 年 12 月 27 日午前 11:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-problem-with-short-usernames/37170 "2015-12-27T11:17:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2016 年 1 月 5 日午前 3:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-problem-with-short-usernames/37170/5 "2016-01-05T03:29:48Z")

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I don’t know, @zogstrip introduced this change cause autocomplete usernames was brutal.

I feel like single letter usernames are such an edge case that I don’t want to even risk making any changes there. Maybe if we supported Chinese usernames one day I would be more open to hacking on this further.

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