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It seems ridiculous to apply form validation to a name, given the complexity of charsets involved. I don't even validate email addresses. I remember [this](https://www.netmeister.org/blog/email.html) wonderful explainer of why your email validation regex is wrong.

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In HTML if you use <input type="email"> you basically get a regex validation. While it not fully follows the RFC it's a good middle ground. And it gives you an email that you can use on the internet (RFC obviously has some cases that are outside of this scope). That's why I tend to prefer what's defined in the standard: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#email-stat...

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