name parsing confused by unicode character

[cgrayson]

Found during guess-who's testing of the Twitter integration, Alex+Jones+%E2%9C%AF (rendered as Alex+Jones+✯) was parsed as first_name: Alex Jones, last_name: ✯.

Maybe we could just strip those kinds of Unicode characters prior to parsing.

[alexkwolfe]

How does it parse "Alex Bobalex Jones"?

[alexkwolfe]

I guess Bobalex is the middle name in that case.

[cgrayson]

That actually gives:

{ salutation: '',
  first_name: 'Alex Bobalex',
  middle_name: '',
  last_name: 'Jones',
  suffix: '' }

😕

[alexkwolfe]

I see. That's weird. So maybe this isn't a unicode character issue at all.