which characters are valid ones in bitcointalk usernames?

Jawguy

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Quote from: Foxpup on August 26, 2015, 09:58:01 AM

I'm pretty sure usernames use ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1). That character set only includes lowercase mu due to that character's use as the standard abbreviation for "micro"; it has no other Greek characters.

Quote from: Undermood on August 25, 2015, 09:32:55 PM

I think Non-latin characters in username is allowed, like user Cøbra, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/non-latin-characters-in-username-888747

"ø" is a Latin character, regardless of what Cøbra seems to think.

Thanks you guys. I was away for a while but now I see this. It seems that latin-1 is okay but not general unicode.

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I'm pretty sure usernames use ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1). That character set only includes lowercase mu due to that character's use as the standard abbreviation for "micro"; it has no other Greek characters.

Quote from: Undermood on August 25, 2015, 09:32:55 PM

I think Non-latin characters in username is allowed, like user Cøbra, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/non-latin-characters-in-username-888747

"ø" is a Latin character, regardless of what Cøbra seems to think.

Undermood

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I think Non-latin characters in username is allowed, like user Cøbra, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/non-latin-characters-in-username-888747

Jawguy

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I found this profile:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/--381968

Pretty cool, has a nice lower case mu as the username. I like it. But when I tried to create an account with a greek letter in it, I got "Error: Invalid character in username."

So I want to know which characters are allowed in a username.

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