if 'T®ebino®' can use the "®" in his status name, nutsmack® should be able to use it in his screenname


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[Edited on September 2, 2003 at 8:51 AM. Reason : ]

9/2/2003 8:50:49 AM

:8)

9/2/2003 11:18:34 AM

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9/2/2003 1:45:08 PM

omfg w00t

9/3/2003 12:42:21 AM

©®AP

no

9/3/2003 4:22:39 PM

no

9/3/2003 4:23:00 PM

nice try

9/3/2003 4:24:11 PM

Can we make this happen yet, qntmfred?

12/6/2025 9:00:39 PM

in the status name it's fine, in the username opens up a can of worm🪱.

12/6/2025 9:08:45 PM

Quote :

"AMBITIOUS BUTT RUBBISH"

12/7/2025 6:53:40 PM

^^Well sir, it seems you have forced me into taking drastic action... I will ask again 22 years from now, but I will word it slightly less respectfully.

12/7/2025 10:34:56 PM

qntmfred said:

Quote :

"in the status name it's fine, in the username opens up a can of worm??."

If this is because of the column's collation, you can HTML-encode a Unicode string to save it as ASCII then decode after reading. UTF-8 characters in the ASCII range (which most usernames probably use) won't change at all either way.

12/8/2025 7:26:58 PM

the username column is a

SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS varchar(12)

text

12/8/2025 7:35:28 PM

Ah, most of the characters would be taken up by the encoded form anyway in that case. Gonna have to bump that column out!

12/8/2025 7:49:03 PM

damnnn Trebinor, what a throwback

you guys can thank him for me ruining TWW he was my roomie my 2nd year. cool guy, I miss that time period so much

also RIP chickenhead, I love that crazy girl <3

double also: lol @ "screenname"

12/8/2025 8:30:24 PM

i'm not familiar with (afaik) any services that don't basically restrict usernames to something along the lines of ^[a-zA-Z0-9_]{3,20}$. probably not worth the hassle although i'm curious how disasterous it could end up being to allow any unicode character in a username

[Edited on December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM. Reason : i always forget unicode vs utf-8 etc]

12/8/2025 8:34:59 PM

Never used an email address for a username before?

12/8/2025 8:41:42 PM