[guardian-dev] Straw poll for ostel.co feature

[Dominik Schürmann]

Eventually it can help to see how XMPP has worked around the problem of
UTF8:
XMPP standard for usernames:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-xmpp-nodeprep-03

uses RFC 3454 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3454 )

As I understand they are normalizing to lower case.

Regards
Dominik

On 24.06.2013 23:33, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:
> (To answer your question Lee...sorry :) )
> 
> It depends on who the target audience is.
> 
> Personally, it would not bother me if Ostel didn't support a) UTF-8 or b) uppercase chars,  as I write in English 85% of my time and can read English pretty well :)
> 
> If I was the 65 year old Russian journo who doesn't speak/write English (and I was a potential user) then it would be that extra step I needed to figure out, possibly loosing me.
> 
> If it's A LOT of work, then I guess thats also something to take into account.
> 
> I hope that helped.. :-/
> 
> Bernard
> 
> 
> On 24 Jun 2013, at 22:01, Lee Azzarello wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the responses and explanations as to why you made them. I
>> would like to normalize the usernames on input so they are all stored
>> as lower alpha numeric. This falls back on Sir Berners Lee's URI
>> specification from 1998, so there's probably a library that will
>> perform this kind of normalization. I'll move the implementation
>> details of this to the ostel internal project list unless everyone
>> reading this thread cares about how to implement URI normalization in
>> Ruby.
> 
>> Best,
>> Lee
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Mark Belinsky
>> <mark at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>> +1 for the same reasons mentioned above
>>>
>>> has anyone tried utf-8 with international mapping? I'm curious to have марк
>>> & mark (cyrillic and english) or дима & Dima
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> @mbelinsky | guardianproject.info | phone: +1-347-466-9327 | ostel: 1003 |
>>> pgp: 0xEFBFA7278D8EFFDA
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Nathan of Guardian
>>> <nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 06/24/2013 01:47 PM, Cooper Quintin wrote:
>>>>> No for the security reasons Nate mentioned and also for usability.
>>>>> Having utf-8 user names could make it very hard / impossible for someone
>>>>> to 'dial' someones username on a mobile application.
>>>>
>>>> I do long for the day when we are all capable of easily reading,
>>>> writing, typing and tapping the full unicode character set.
>>>>
>>>> +n
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