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(2018-08-15, 06:26 PM)Euan T Wrote: [ -> ]

(2018-08-15, 06:13 PM)effone Wrote: [ -> ]Even listing A to Z in thead (title bar) is too much in my opinion. Search / Filtering feature has its own dedicated section (bottom) / page (advanced search).
Listing all alphabets there is not consistent wrt rest of the theads anywhere, also its gonna be an issue for responsive theme design (Justin may know better). The best I can think of is to omit that in mobile view or place the list in a dropdown.

Yeah, I've always thought the A-Z list looked weird. I imagine @Justin has some thoughts on the layout for 1.9.

The way I see it is this...

Label the Search box like 0-9, A-B. Leave it as is in the Member List page. Just like the way @Michael2014 suggested in post #18. Keep it simple.

However, add some coding where if a user inputs special characters like '.' , then the user would be... in one of two ways...

1. Automatically dropped into the Advanced Search page with a little popup saying that "Search using special characters requires Advanced Search function" or something similar so that the user knows that he/she didn't do something wrong and will continue their search.

2. A popup window stating "Search using special characters requires Advanced Search function" along with a direct link to the Advanced Search function page, which the user can click on the link in the popup window or if the user chooses not to, have a 'Close' button to close the window.

Just my 2 cents...

Easy to code, but much complicated UI wise...
There is no good option other than simply dropping play-school ABCD.

You need to filter in any manner : go to advanced search. Thats there for a reason. Same reason why we don't have a WYSIWYG quick reply.

This is a simple fix and can be easily made via a custom plugin. Overall, there needs to be a selection that shows 0-9., the same rule applies for a-z, there is a ton of names that start with A-Z, so it would not be a big jump to add an 0-9 button as well,.

I believe in action, not excuses, so there can be a million reasons why there is not, but that does not change the fact that there needs to be a fuction to search the same way as a-z, to search 0-9. Thanks to everyone for adding your opinion.

(2018-08-15, 03:48 AM).m. Wrote: [ -> ]though links are not available, search for numbers & other characters also works

https://community.mybb.com/memberlist.php?username_match=begins&username=n

eg. member names beginning with number 9 ; beginning with . ; beginning with ! ; begins with 420 ... ...

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I think it is necessary in board MyBB... in Member List  you can FILTER users by clicking the LETTER ( from A to Z ) to find users names  but what about users names that begins with numbers ( 0- 9 ) or special characters ( ! @ # $ ^ & - + )...  The easy way to find a Username is ADD a Filter to Special Character in the Memberlist... 

I write it just thinking as a suggestion, as a better support and utility for the board MyBB 1.8.x

Special characters are NOT ALLOWED in usernames.
Wait, is it?

I've read the PR from Eldenroot to address the issue in this thread.

I think it's should be a very convenient feature to allow users to filter users by their initials. By adding a # key to filter users whose initials are not case-insensitive A-Z letters, is also a good idea. I don't know how iOS does, but many Android contact Apps provide quick access to contacts by sliding to a particular initial letters. Even the web version of Google Contact will show an indicator of current initial when scrolling.

Seems the queries are supported by the script now and it's not a big deal if that row of A B C ... Z is upgraded with other initials like 0-9, or even removed since it's just a theme/template and language pack thing.

I'm here to ask if the search can support languages other than English. I don't know how to exactly describe it, but you know many languages have their written script letters with ISO basic Latin alphabet and extensions based on the ISO letters.

For example, Chinese use Pinyin for phonetics, which is based on the ISO basic letters, A-Zs. OK, what I'm asking is if the query can return a filtered result of users with a specific phonetic initial. Suppose we have an arbitrary Chinese username 拼音 whose pinyin is pin yin (without tone), then we can have it on the list if the query initial is P.

Sorry for a long post, there's no TL;DR .