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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

See case of anyone from Russia or Łukasz from Poland.

Or people from China/Japan.

While banning some characters may be reasonable it is complex,
and unlikely to be very important.


May 28, 2020, 15:02 by mbranco2 at gmail.com:

> Hallo,
> 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?
>

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