Siphonay is a user on octodon.social. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
If you don't, you can sign up here.
it's crazy that in 2017 some modern windows software crash or don't want properly just because I have the character "é" in my user name
for example, OBS Studio creates this folder instead of using my actual one https://octodon.social/media/JH6R7gSelcltQ1e8egM
@Siphonay because usernames must not have non-ASCII chars. 'Siphonay' would juuuuust work fine for that, and you can use your real name properly as your user full name.
@problemo yeah, alphanumeric:
something like /^[A-Za-z-_][A-Za-z-0-9_]+$/
@Siphonay
Crazy and incompetent. I support efforts to hunt down those programmers and have them beheaded!
@Siphonay when I was running an online radio station I had to reject so much software, as I was rebroadcasting German hard techno mixes, which (not unreasonably) had titles in German and a lot of USA designed software choked on these (that which was more widely used in Europe was at least better).
For work databases/software I insist they are fully unicode compatible as many of our staff are from countries where they might have accented characters in their names..