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Yes I used to see lots when I used Jerboa, but not one since switching to Boost. It wasn't something that annoyed me at all, but I see your point, it's something that could be exploited I guess
This reminds me of a situation previously where a user's pronoun wasn't visible to another user because their client did not show display names
A solution for this that doesn't alienate usernames with pronouns and non-latin languages will be tricky IMO, to be honest I'd just leave it as-is since the fancy display names I've seen so far aren't excessive or abusing unicode modifiers.
Just because people use display names for that doesn't mean display names are a good place to indicate pronouns, and it especially doesn't mean that having a client use usernames is alienating anyone who currently puts non-name data in a name field.
I'd much rather there be a dedicated field where it can be treated with the importance it deserves and not just lumped in with other miscellany as a kludge.