cant create room name or make username in arabic or rtl language

[faziloub]

cant rename an account or create a room in arabic

[theorenck]

Hi @fifou17 thank you for report it to us, can you give us more context on the problem?

[faziloub]

@theorenck when i try to create an account using a username and name in arabic its gives me error and it doesnt show up and same for rooms name

[tassoevan]

As a workaround, you can go to Administration / الإدارة > General / العامة > UTF8 and change UTF8 Names Validation / UTF8 أسماء التحقق to [0-9a-zA-Z\u0600-\u06FF-_.]+. However, there are known issues that we are trying to fix/improve now, like URLs and avatars.

[tassoevan]

Related to #1566.

[gabriellsh]

This has been fixed. If you still face this issue, please reopen.