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?
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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 threadYes, *that* dawn personFeb 20
@mcc 왜 그렇게 되셨나요?
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@thatdawnperson I thiiiiink that the way they fit the antique Korean jamo into requires a really awkward hack that they just don't want these systems to have to deal with
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@thatdawnperson But seeing them lead with that just makes it seem oddly vindictive
Feb 20 at 3:32amWeb