All OnoGraph APIs that accept a name input have an option to sanitize the input. Sanitization removes illegal and erroneous characters as well as executing various formatting fixes.
Although it is recommended you use sanitization, it is not enabled by default.
It is enabled by providing sanitize=1 via GET, e.g.
It also works using the British English, sanitise=1.
Some examples of how names are sanitized:
| Before Sanitization | After Sanitization |
| Billy“Bob” | Billybob | J0hn | Jhn |
| Владимир | null |
| 生 | null |
| -Joe | Joe |
| Mc Donald | McDonald |
| ' Jones ' | Jones |
| Sharma | Sharma |