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Re:Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode wh... by heeen2 on Sunday November 05, 2017 @12:21AM (#15628154)
What may look like decoration to English readers e.g. the ä in häagen dasz or ö in Motörhead, are actually distinct letters in languages that have them. Disallowing display names because another one exists but without diacritics and the like is just asking for a ton of manual review. And how do you handle scripts that only use ASCII for English loan words, say Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Arabic, Russian and Indian scripts?

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