What should be allowed in full name in a sign up form?

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Building an international web app like Quora or twitter to serve many countries. What should be allowed for person's name in profile.

Only one full name field or first name and last name
How many minimum/maximum characters
Only English (A-Z,a-z,spaces) or more characters (dot, etc. or more languages, unicode, utf-8, utf-16, what?)

What rules are being used by zomato, twitter, quora?

possible duplicate of Merging firstname/last name into one field — Nathan Tuggy, Aug 8, 2015 at 16:54
Please show what research you have done to try to answer your question. As it stands there is no actual indication that you've made any effort here. — tohster, Aug 8, 2015 at 17:34
International websites need full character support ,additionally first and last name doesnt exist in all cultures and names can get very long. 40 characters seems reasonable to me. — downrep_nation, Aug 8, 2015 at 18:27
You may want to have a read here: ux.stackexchange.com/questions/61908/… — Bart Gijssens, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:58

BlueWizard · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-10 12:30:56Z

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You could just offer a single Box Username where the user can decide weather to use first-/lastname-system or something else

answered Aug 10, 2015 at 12:30

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DasBeasto · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-10 12:26:36Z

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Normally a persons name should be the second name. When we create the form we will say to the user first name or sure name and second name.

Name suggests 35 characters but put as: 70 characters maximum, first name length was 46, and email 255 characters.

It applies to all languages

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answered Aug 10, 2015 at 11:26

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There are people whose names don't fit in the parameters you gave (I went to university with one) - names get longer than you think.
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Aug 11, 2015 at 0:20

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