Italian alphabet onlyin repo + org names

[icf20]

Description

Apparently repo and organizations names cant have

ñ, ç, ț, ă, â, ș, î

yes "Gobierno de España" the Spanish government is not allowed to be an organization

dont ask to have ñ->n, last time White House did that i went from feliz año to feliz ano

Gitea Version

1,22

Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site?

Yes

Log Gist

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Git Version

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Operating System

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How are you running Gitea?

container

Database

None

[silverwind]

These name limitations are intentional to keep compatibilty with other forges like GitHub etc. See #4150 (comment) for some recent research on repo/org names. I guess it'd be fine to make this regex configurable but the default must stay compatible with other forges.

[delvh]

I guess it'd be fine to make this regex configurable

Not a good idea.
We cannot control what you write into the regex.
Why is not being able to validate it a bad idea?
Well… the org names must appear on your file system.
I have no idea how well OSs like Windows handle certain names.
Or even Linux, as special chars in a filename are always a good idea to annoy your server admin to no end.
And since we cannot validate the regex, this will lead to hard to understand error messages, and thus pissed off users.
So no, I'm not a fan of allowing non-ASCII chars.

[silverwind]

Recent filesystems handle unicode pretty well, but still it's likely better to not let the user unknowingly break the portability of their repos.

[lunny]

I don't support relaxing the limitation except the git file system structure has been changed.

[denyskon]

Maybe separate display names for repos could be an option.

[lunny]

Yes. Like the user has a Full Name, the organization also has a Full Name which is different from the login name. The problem is most places hasn't display that full name.