[cosmo-dev] More Unicode

[Travis Vachon]

Especially given Randy's input, this sounds right to me: +1

On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

> +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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