Unicode in handles
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wrote on 14 May 2025, 07:08 last edited by
Hi @julian,
as long as nobody cares about the according standards, the #fediverse will be a brittle nerd niche.The according standard is IMO https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7565.html#:~:text=userpart ( #RFC7033 and #RFC7565 ) referring to https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7564#section-4.2.1.
What you find in the wild, however, is a different story as thee is no agreed upon #validator service nowhere.
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wrote on 14 May 2025, 07:27 last edited byWe 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.
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wrote on 14 May 2025, 08:33 last edited by
Hi, hello everyone. I'm sorry to hear that I can't be followed because of my username characters. Does this mean that I can't be followed here on the forum or is it something else?
Also, should I change my username to English characters? -
Hi, hello everyone. I'm sorry to hear that I can't be followed because of my username characters. Does this mean that I can't be followed here on the forum or is it something else?
Also, should I change my username to English characters?wrote on 14 May 2025, 11:49 last edited byלאצי don't worry about it! You shouldn't have to alter your username just to suit our latin-character world
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wrote on 14 May 2025, 14:03 last edited by
Huh. My Lemmy mobile client has the handle and host inverted. It doesn't look like this in the default web UI, though.
Also, my post from Lemmy hasn't landed here yet.
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wrote on 14 May 2025, 14:07 last edited by
For what it's worth, I'm reading this thread from Lemmy and can see this comment of yours and access your profile, so in principle there isn't anything wrong with your username.
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wrote on 14 May 2025, 14:13 last edited by
Hi @kichae,
fun with RTL. How is it supposed to be? -
Hi @kichae,
fun with RTL. How is it supposed to be?wrote on 14 May 2025, 14:45 last edited bymro@digitalcourage.social the order of the Hebrew characters is correct, although I believe it should be wrapped in
<bdi>tags so the rest of the line isn't affected
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wrote on 14 May 2025, 18:17 last edited by@לאצי I agree with @julian, you shouldn't don't have to change your username. It's just a technical hurdle to jump over.
Since I can follow you on Hubzilla (via a specific URL), I don't think it is an issue with ActivityPub or WebFinger. I'm sure there is some solution that would allow other platforms to follow your account. -
wrote on 14 May 2025, 19:48 last edited by@julian I just reported the issue over on the @Hubzilla Support Forum and created an issue in our repository.
#^https://hubzilla.org/channel/adminsforum?mid=7296e345-0ba9-51f9-b376-8e29368f3a07
Note: To prevent spam, you must be followingadminsforum@hubzilla.orgto participate in the Hubzilla Support Forum. -
wrote on 14 May 2025, 21:13 last edited by
I'm curious about how the forum https://mitmachim.top/, which operates entirely in Hebrew, deals with the issue of Unicode usernames. Does this issue even exist there? Also, it's worth noting that Mitmachim Top is based on NodeBB.
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I'm curious about how the forum https://mitmachim.top/, which operates entirely in Hebrew, deals with the issue of Unicode usernames. Does this issue even exist there? Also, it's worth noting that Mitmachim Top is based on NodeBB.
wrote on 14 May 2025, 21:42 last edited byלאצי the usernames work fine locally (that is, on the site itself). It's when interoperating with other sites not running NodeBB where there are issues, it seems
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wrote on 15 May 2025, 08:51 last edited by
The ActivityPub and WebFinger spec does mention that Mastodon has some strict requirements there. Only alphanumeric characters, underscores, dashes, and dots.
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