[cosmo-dev] More Unicode

[Ted Leung]

+1

On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Jared Rhine wrote:

>> All that said, I think I'm leaning toward favoring the following:
>>
>> 1) Restrict usernames to U+0000-U+FFFF server side, add client  
>> side logic to explain and enforce restriction
>> 2) Create 1.0 bug to handle U+10000 and above characters in data  
>> correctly.
>
> I have no Hub product or operational reason to support usernames  
> outside the BMP.  I support refusing to create such usernames  
> server-side, and restricting their submission in the UI.
>
> I don't think we should work to support astral Unicode planes  
> anywhere, even in payloads.  The payoff is very low.  If checking  
> for astral codepoints is cheap, it'd be cool to throw an error upon  
> submission, but I bet we would live fine even if we didn't do that.
>
> I'm fine with a U+10000 bug for future, but I would really prefer  
> to see it Futured and *not* 1.0.  1.0 is too close, and has other  
> far more valuable goals.
>
> -- Jared
>
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