# User mention full name search is not working for Unicode names

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-mention-full-name-search-is-not-working-for-unicode-names/53691>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [Décembre 2, 2016, 3:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-mention-full-name-search-is-not-working-for-unicode-names/53691 "2016-12-02T15:44:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [Décembre 2, 2016, 11:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-mention-full-name-search-is-not-working-for-unicode-names/53691/5 "2016-12-02T23:09:26Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Did all 5000 of those users have the same username though? I agree that once you have a million users, the namespace gets pretty.. crowded.

Hahahaha no. We had 100k users/employees. And they were pre-created into the forum.

So we used the employee\_id (One letter + 7 numbers like X1234567) as the username. People can remember employee\_id of close colleagues (like your boss and team) but when you just want to mark:

> Oh this topic is gold. Gonna mark Susan from the HR here.

You know her full name is **Susan Summers** , but there are 15+ Susans and 15+ Summers on the board.

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