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Macrons (and other accents) on your name
This week we added the ability for members to include macrons (and other accents) when entering their first and last names. You can update your name from the contact details section on your My Trade Me page.
While it may seem like a tiny area of the site that we’ve updated, it was a large piece of work with wide-ranging impact to the code base. We wanted to update this and the member profile first, as a person’s name is an important part of their identity and they should be able to write it correctly.
Our end goal is to have Trade Me fully support unicode across all data we store and we’ll continue to work towards this.
You can find out more about our updates in this area from these Newsroom posts:
• Macrons (and other accents) on your first and last name
• Macrons now supported in member profiles
• Supporting te reo Maori