# Username completition broken for names with accents like Régis

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/username-completition-broken-for-names-with-accents-like-regis/65934>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [Juillet 10, 2017, 12:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/username-completition-broken-for-names-with-accents-like-regis/65934 "2017-07-10T12:30:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![rriemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rriemann/32/115238_2.png) [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)\
**Post date:** [Juillet 10, 2017, 12:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/username-completition-broken-for-names-with-accents-like-regis/65934/1 "2017-07-10T12:30:57Z")

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Hello,

In my forum, people have real names with all different kind of accents. I tried to use the username completition launched by typing `@` to mention a user while writing a response and found that I could not find users by their name if the name contains an `é`.

You can test it on your own. Try to find @zogstrip by typing `@` followed by `Ré` for Régis. The actual username lookup is `https://meta.discourse.org/u/search/users?term=r&topic_id=65888&include_groups=true`. Note that all characters from the _e with accent_ on are stripped off from the search query.

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