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Wesley Moore 2022-01-27 21:09:33 +10:00
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@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title = "ASCII-centric Usernames"
date = 2022-01-27T18:38:25+10:00
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#updated = 2020-06-19T09:30:00+10:00
updated = 2022-01-27T21:07:32+10:00
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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.
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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.