I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode

Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by tracker1 on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @06:18PM (#9222002)

In your example... I wouldn't really care how it is stored, as long as it looks right on the display, and I don't have to go through contortions to enter it on an input device... for example, I don't care that 'a' maps to \x61 ... it's a value behind the scenes... it's the interface to that value.

As long as the typeface/font used can display the character/combination reasonably, and I can input reasonably it doesn't matter so much how it's used...

Now, having to type in 2-3 characters to get there, that's a different story, and one that should involve better input devices in most cases.

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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by hackuser on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @07:11PM (#9222292)

> I wouldn't really care how it is stored, as long as it looks right on the display

It becomes a problem when you have other uses besides reading text, such as sorting or searching.

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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by tracker1 on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @09:49PM (#9223078)

That's why you can normalize the input to certain UTF-8 patterns for this purpose. Same should go for passwords before hashing them.

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