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

[Steve Friedl]

> If there is any real problem here, it could be with people using names that look like the names of other community members (but technically are different) for abusive scopes

Can I be Ṡtereo ? :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 8:38 AM
To: Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)



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> On 28. May 2020, at 17:20, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> 
> Practically all people in Russia studied a foreign language within the compulsory education system. ... I am sure that typing several Latin letters would not be a challenge.
> 
> Besides in such disciplines as mathematics or chemistry the Latin letters are being used widely for variables in formulas, etc.
> Customarily, a keyboard with the Russian layout has got also the Latin letters on the keys (buttons) [1].
> 
> I do not know exactly about Japan and China, but I guess that it is about the same there too.


I think the question is not so much whether someone not usually writing in latin characters will be able to do it, but more whether a name written in latin is suitable for them to identify with. IMHO there is great benefit in allowing unicode names, and very little problem with people using “strange looking” characters to mean something in different than what the characters are originally intended for.

If there is any real problem here, it could be with people using names that look like the names of other community members (but technically are different) for abusive scopes. This shouldn’t be tolerated of course, and would be individually reacted to by the admins, if it is detected.

Cheers Martin 
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