Radio buttons as mandatory item?

Hello,

I need radio buttons as mandatory item, but it doesn’t seem to work. If I put a star behind the item, the item isn’t shown anymore. Example:

[radio* radio-548 “Ja” “Nein”]

Is that a bug, or is it just not implemented?

Edit: Ok, I just read that it isn’t implemented, because “a radio button is a required field by nature”. That might be the case in theory, but de facto, I cannot replace it by a default value due to legal reasons, so I need to leave it unselected, but I also need to force the user to make a selection. I hope you understand that in this case, a technical implementation of a mandatory radio button field is necessary despite the theoretical W3C specs.

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