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wakest ⁂

I recently discovered to my surprise that Co-Star allows unicode in their @usernames and this is the first network I have seen that has this support. I have been complaining about the fediverse lack of unicode support in usernames for a long time now and its interesting to see centralized projects get to this milestone first. Though its probably much easier to get this to work right in a centralized environment.

5 Jul 2022 at 20:06 | Open on social.wake.st
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wakest ⁂

an example to show it in action, notice the á near the end of the username
5 Jul 2022 at 20:08 | Open on social.wake.st
vince

@liaizon Do you know how search functionality works for users who don’t have a given character on a keyboard, is there a transliteration or ‘close sounding letters’ lookup? If I for example look up ‘onoma’ can I see also “όνομα” usernames?

5 Jul 2022 at 23:16 | Open on autonomous.zone
wakest ⁂

@vince i just tried to do some searching but couldn't figure it out. I know some people who work there tho I could probably reach out to them

5 Jul 2022 at 23:41 | Open on social.wake.st
vince

@liaizon hmm interesting lemme know if you do

6 Jul 2022 at 1:02 | Open on autonomous.zone
wakest ⁂

@vince figured out I have three friends who work there now haha so have to figure out which one to ask

13 Jul 2022 at 20:02 | Open on social.wake.st
mike
It's been optional in my software literally for years. We map it to punycode which is stored and used internally. The problem you'll discover is how the heck you @-mention a pineapple-ambulance-mexican_flag.
5 Jul 2022 at 20:20 | Open on unfediverse.com
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