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> That’s why I still get mail with my name mangled Which is why you always type out addresses in ASCII representations in any foreign transactions even if it's

> That’s why I still get mail with my name mangled Which is why you always type out addresses in ASCII representations in any foreign transactions even if it's not going to match your identity documents, unless the other party specifically demands it in UTF-8 and insists that they can handle it. > it’s better if a Chinese user name does not break your reporting or logging systems You should not be just casually dumping Chinese usernames into logs without warnings, in fact, you should not be using Chinese characters for usernames at all. Lots of Chinese online services exclusively use numeric IDs and e-mails for login IDs. "Usernames in natural human language" is a valid concept only in ASCII cultural sphere.

kergonath 2y ago
> Which is why you always type out addresses in ASCII representations in any foreign transactions even if it's not going to match your identity documents, unless the other party specifically demands it in UTF-8 and insists that they can handle it. That is not always possible and the translation from local writing system to ASCII is often not unique and ambiguous. There really is no excuse for this sort of thinking. Even American programmers have to realise at some point that programs serve some purpose and that their failure to represent how the world works is just that: a failure. There is no excuse for programs to not support UTF-8 from user input to any output, including all the processing in between.