if you press the quote button to quote someone with a special character in their username, they will not receive the ping.
example:
[edit] This actually works despite looking broken!
Hmmh, don't you put an underscore instead of the special character? It's been awhile. :P
Looks like using an underscore worked. I'll see if I can get the programmers to automatically change it when you hit the quote button like you use to be able to (assuming I recall correctly xD)
[.Nena] The one from me or from ?
I wasn't aware of the underscore! Thanks :)
let me know if you get this. I will comment you.
Nope, didn't get it.
My user name is almost as difficult as I am in real life XD
so does this one work? commenting you again
[.Nena] so despite looking ugly and broken, the ping goes through. I will update the OP to reflect that! thank you :)
edited my OP in case you're curious. if the formatting could be fixed, instead of the underscore they could force the square brackets too.