ππππππ has all to do with mastro, because it's the surname of a
student in an Italian high school where I'm teaching OSM :-)
His classroom is participating in a mapathon for UN (
https://tasks.teachosm.org/project/998), commenting changeset withs
#AAvogadroONU.
When I asked him how he registered in OSM, he told me that he likes gothic
font, and in every social he registered in that way (writing his surname in
gothic with a wordprocessor, and copying/pasting it in the registering form.
Surely I agree everyone in the world must be able to register using
characters of his language, but I supposed that the sequence to change the
font character is something different from characters in other alphabets
(sorry, I'm not an expert of character encoding, maybe this is not true).
Or maybe we could use nicknames also bolded, underlined, ...
Il giorno gio 28 mag 2020 alle ore 15:30 Martin Koppenhoefer <
dieterdre...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
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> sent from a phone
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> On 28. May 2020, at 15:08, mbranco2 <mbran...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was surprised finding an OSM username written in gothic characters: I'm
> not sure if this mailing list could show such font, the
> nickname is ππππππ ("mastro" in normal characters).
> The problem is that, if you want to access this user profile, you've to
> copy and paste his name written with such font, searching with
> osm.org/user/mastro give no results.
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> Isn't this an anomaly?
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>
> itβs normal, we allow unicode characters for usernames, and there is no
> tolerant βsearchβ behind osm.org/user/username
> AGAIK it requires the exact string (maybe whitespace trimmed) that the
> mapper has used for registering.
> If the user had written in a different script which you do not have
> available on your keyboard you would have had equally to use copy+paste (or
> click on a link to the user).
>
> ππππππ has nothing to do with mastro, although it might look as if
> it has.
>
> Cheers Martin
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