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RE[10]: For programmers: cleaning up user (display) names.

Martijn

@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 ( ). At least that’s what we are currently looking at.

The problem is size. Unicode 6.2 contains 110 182 different characters. How are we to know what to censor and what not? And when?

For instance I used a thin space (U+2009) as a thousands separator in that number. Should this be allowed or not? Should it be removed or should it be changed to a full space? Or may it is allowed in text but not in names? Many decisions, few experts.

[1]: https://github.com/Kroc/NoNonsenseForum/issues/175

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