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lionkor on Oct 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The naughty username checking system used by Twitc...

So... This ignores lookalike unicode from other languages? Or does SQL know that, for example, `c` (ascii c) looks like `с` (cyrillic s)?

input_sh on Oct 7, 2021 [–]

It only allows English characters to begin with. It doesn't even do Latin Extended characters like čćšđ, let alone non-Latin.

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