From f0eed29ba78581adac59857f7248ba7395bc63b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wesley Moore Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:09:33 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Tweak username post --- v2/content/posts/2022/usernames.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/v2/content/posts/2022/usernames.md b/v2/content/posts/2022/usernames.md index 5aeaffc..0c6b0a9 100644 --- a/v2/content/posts/2022/usernames.md +++ b/v2/content/posts/2022/usernames.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title = "ASCII-centric Usernames" date = 2022-01-27T18:38:25+10:00 [extra] -#updated = 2020-06-19T09:30:00+10:00 +updated = 2022-01-27T21:07:32+10:00 +++ I'm working on a web-based side project in my spare time. The great thing about @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ about usernames—specifically the characters that they may be comprised of. -I poked around at a few sites to see what they did: Twitter, GitHub, Discourse -all restrict your username to a mostly ASCII numeric character set perhaps +I poked around a few sites to see what they did: Twitter, GitHub, Discourse +all restrict your username to a mostly ASCII alphanumeric character set, perhaps with `-`, `_`, and `.` thrown in. It struck me that this is fine for me, an English speaker, but must suck for @@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ Now this is all very biased by my monolingual, English speaking, Western viewpoi Perhaps it is more common to permit native language usernames in applications that target non-English markets? -I did find a couple examples that were more permissive with usernames. +I did find a couple of examples that were more permissive with usernames. Discord happily let me set my username to "🦊 こんにちは". Slack rejected the -emoji with a cute message "Of course you want a name with an emoji. Sadly, it -is not to be. Try letters?" but was otherwise happy with "こんにちは". In both +emoji with a cute message, "Of course you want a name with an emoji. Sadly, it +is not to be. Try letters?", but was otherwise happy with "こんにちは". In both cases @ mentioning the user appears to require typing their name, although you could also find them in the people directory first.