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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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