I’ve just created a PR to allow arbitrary Unicode usernames in #flohmarkt, in a safe fashion: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/pulls/921

I’ve just created a PR to allow arbitrary Unicode usernames in #flohmarkt, in a safe fashion: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/pulls/921

given https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8417 I assume this might make @Edent happy

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@Profpatsch @Edent I see this is now merged, has it now been tested against how these new unicode actors will federate across to mastodon and other platforms that don't allow unicode usernames? cc @north

@liaizon @Edent @north It completely fails with mastodon unfortunately, we hope we can create some pressure for then to implement sane internationalization of usernames

@liaizon @Edent @north But yeah, it’s exceptionally silly to be a project with an aspiration for international communities, and then not allow people to sign up in their native e.g. Amharic or Han scripts

@Profpatsch @liaizon @Edent Allowing more of the higher(?) Unicode range is what my patch does that makes Unicode domain names work. They're using a pretty old version of whatever the Twitter parser library is. I don't know anything about usernames, unfortunately. What do the specs say on that?

@north @liaizon @Edent Check https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7564