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I guess I know what’s going on after a few trials. Toshl puts a validation rule which requires the name has at least 4 characters. Unfortunately, almost all Chinese have a name of 2 or 3 characters, like “张三”, which is not allowed in Toshl… (I guess some Japanese would suffer the same problem)

As an iOS developer, I also want to propose some suggestions:

• Abandon the validation at all
• Detect the language in use by using CFStringTokenizerCopyBestStringLanguage or some regular expression (don't preform validation on non-western names)
• Detect the locale of the device by using NSLocale (not suggested because some Chinese are using non-Chinese locale)
• Make the notice clearer by saying "your name is not long enough" instead of "please enter your name"
• Read some articles about Chinese names…

Though not tested, I believe the problem could be solved pretty easily. Good luck and get more Chinese users!

Thanks a lot! You just saved us a lot o time. How can we get more users like you? :)

We opted not to do any validation (user just has to write at least something in the field to get through).