mccFeb 20
Consider a Mastodon/Fediverse handle, like @[email protected] . What kinds of restrictions are there on "username"? Can I assume any valid unicode could go in there?
Show threadmccFeb 20

Somebody linked me RFC 7565, which linked to RFC7564, and if that's the place to look this appears to be the list of disallowed characters in a Fediverse username, and I'm cracking up because it's *mostly* stuff you'd expect, except the very first category of banned characters, specially, is "pre-1700 Korean characters".

The fediverse is welcome to all. EXCEPT KOREAN TIME TRAVELERS. Did you just wake up from being frozen in ice during the Joseon dynasty? The IETF is targeting you PERSONALLY

Show threadCassandra is only carbon now
@mcc I get it, but the exclusion of "Q" property characters is an interesting and odd one.
Feb 20 at 3:09amWeb
Show threadCharles A-MFeb 20
@xgranade @mcc Reminds me of how CIRA decided that anyone who buys a .ca domain automatically gets reserved all accented character variations: https://www.cira.ca/en/ca-domains/register-your-ca/domains-french-accented-characters/
Domains with French accented characters – CIRA

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