= phenomenon =

People were unable to sign up for fas accounts if they had non-ascii characters in their human name.

= reason =

The validator that checked whether the human name looked like a legal name (more than two words and the first and last name were more than a single character) used an ASCii-only regex.

= recommendation =

Hotfix has been applied to FAS and applied upstream that changes this regex in several ways to account for non-ASCii characters. SHold be in the next fas release.