To be clear, some really great community members have these names, but they’re everywhere now. And with the right characters you can create some really annoying overlaps: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3790

Enough of them floating around now that I’ll probably do a PR for my favorite client to filter them out.

  • @cbarrick
    24•10 months ago

    No, I think they mean something more like Unicode compatibility form. Not sure what OP means, but Unicode NFKC normalization solves this.

    So 🅱️ gets normalized to B, but “real” characters are left intact across scripts.

    See NFKC and NFKD form here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence