[OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)

[Tom Hughes]

On 28/05/2020 14:02, mbranco2 wrote:

> I was surprised finding an OSM username written in gothic characters: 
> I'm not sure if this mailing list could show such font, the 
> nickname is 𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔 ("mastro" in normal characters).
> The problem is that, if you want to access this user profile, you've to 
> copy and paste his name written with such font, searching with 
> osm.org/user/mastro <http://osm.org/user/mastro> give no results.
> 
> Isn't this an anomaly?


So we shouldn't allow people who don't use the latin
alphabet to register using names in their native language?

Tom

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