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Unicode in handles (community.nodebb.org)
submitted 1 month ago by julian@community.nodebb.org to c/activitypub@community.nodebb.org
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I'm assuming Unicode in handles is not allowed? At least by Mastodon.

This user is not able to have their content federated because the username is all Hebrew (I think?) characters!

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[–] mikedev@fediversity.site 2 points 1 month ago

We accept punycode usernames and render appropriately; or pass through UTF-8 usernames. The biggest issue is autocomplete; so we provided that using aliases/petnames for connections. Probably will have issues on some platforms.