[OSM-talk] 😁 | Re: OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)

[Rory McCann]

ha! Awesome!

My OSM username is like that. It's so out there that I am unable to log 
into the OSM Forum, & help.osm.org. When I try to put it on the wiki 
directly, it deletes the whole page. It's great fun. 🙂 ⁽¹⁾

It's a nice way to find unicode bugs in OSM software.

(And remember: people can change their usernames)

⁽¹⁾ Much less software broke than I thought.

On 28/05/2020 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 <http://osm.org/user/mastro> give no results.
> 
> Isn't this an anomaly?
> 
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