For programmers: cleaning up user (display) names.
Hello everyone, here’s an interesting headscratcher for you. I am working on a website that should allow for users to register a login name but that will allow them to pick any display name they want...
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If you have PHP5.4, then the transliterator can ascii-ize almost anything. The recipe I use also breaks unicode characters apart, such as "ij", and replaces letter-like symbols. Basically, using...
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The problem with transliterations is that they will also take out accented characters. I don’t want to force people away from using their own name. Names like Björk Guðmundsdóttir, 毛泽东, or Борис...
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Could you perhaps look at the IDN spec to see what code-points / ranges they've excluded? There may also be libraries out there that process IDNs, and therefore include anti-spoofing. I'm not quite...
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" Could you perhaps look at the IDN spec to see what code-points / ranges they've excluded? [...] " This will rather unhelpful since the IDN spec is very lenient, only forbidding code points with...
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Hi @Akerhielm! Thanks for dropping in on this conversation. You might want to check out the recently sparked discussion after I spoofed Kroc’s name here on the forum:...
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With a baby coming in a couple of months, there's not much time for me to be working on this, but I'm itching to get on to it.
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Why is Reply #1 completely blank? No user name, no "this post was deleted by a moderator", just a timestamp and an empty space where content would normally be...
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It's the very problem we're discussing :) -- abuse of Unicode to fake posts and names!
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@theraje: And hopefully once [1] is done this particular Unicode abuse will no longer be possible. The character used has the ‘White_Space’ property and should just be replaced with a normal space ( )....
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Sorry, didn't realize that. I saw the OP, then a blank reply, then Kroc replying to the OP. It gave me the impression that something happened recently to make Reply #1 disappear somehow. (I didn't...
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