Checkout Address Validation Does Not Allow Period Character in City Field

[matthewdolman-afd]

Preconditions and environment

• Magento version: 2.4.8

Steps to reproduce

• Add item to cart, go to checkout
• Input a UK address with the city set to "St. Albans"
• Try to place the order

Expected result

Order is placed successfully

Actual result

Error message shown that says "Invalid City. Please use A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, ', spaces".

Additional information

"St. Albans" is a valid UK town name and it appears like this in the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF), which is the definitive UK address database. For services that are validating addresses against PAF this requirement either stops the checkout process or causes invalid address data to be collected.

Release note

Address towns can now contain . character.

Triage and priority

• Severity: S0 - Affects critical data or functionality and leaves users without workaround.
• Severity: S1 - Affects critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S2 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S3 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and does not force users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S4 - Affects aesthetics, professional look and feel, “quality” or “usability”.

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[engcom-November]

Hello @matthewdolman-afd ,

Thank you for sharing the report and for your collaboration.

We attempted to reproduce the issue on the 2.4 develop instance, but it was not reproducible on our end.

Please find the reference screenshot attached.

Steps to reproduce:

• Add an item to the cart and proceed to checkout
• Enter a UK address with the city set to "St. Albans"
• Attempt to place the order

We followed these steps exactly but did not encounter any issues. Could you please verify on your side and let us know if the issue still persists?

Additionally, please advise if there’s anything we might be missing.

Hence we are marking this issue as "Needs Update"

Thank you!

[matthewdolman-afd]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response.

Not sure what more information I can give, unless there is a setting in the config I am not aware of. The validation is happening on the actual checkout page, I have shipping and billing to be the same, please see attached screenshot.

The actual version I am using is 2.4.8-p2.

There is 400 response coming back from the payment-information endpoint, which contains the content of the error message.

Please let me know if there is any more helpful information I can share.

[rogerdz]

@matthewdolman-afd You need to apply this patch https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce-operations/tools/quality-patches-tool/patches-available-in-qpt/v1-1-71/acsd-67904#

[matthewdolman-afd]

Great, thank you. That page says that the issue will be fixed in 2.4.9. Will it also be fixed in patches for the other supported versions?