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

[Maarten Deen]

On 2020-05-28 15:02, mbranco2 wrote:
> 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 [1] give no results.
> 
> Isn't this an anomaly?

I'm sure this is a feature that's very helpful for everyone not writing 
in latin script (Russia, China, Japan, etc). I'm sure there are many 
users that have their name written in Cyrillic or Hanzi or Kanji but I 
can't give examples because I can't enter those letters.
I won't call it an anomaly but an inconvenience.

Regards,
Maarten