Would their ActivityPub username be לאצי@community.nodebb.org then?

I tried to follow that username and it would not let me.

scott@loves.tech said in Unicode in handles:
> Would their ActivityPub username be לאצי@community.nodebb.org then?<br /><br />I tried to follow that username and it would not let me.

Indeed, that's probably the characters in their handle.

In Hubzilla, I was able to follow this user by pasting this URL into the "Add Connection" box:

#^https://community.nodebb.org/user/%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A6%D7%99

I copied the URL in the browser for that user's profile (which contained the Hebrew characters). When I pasted it, it converted it to UTF-8 text (seen above).

Hubzilla was able to find the user based on that UTF-8 URL. So it is possible to follow such an account, at least with Hubzilla, via the UTF-8 URL.

It could not find %D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A6%D7%99@community.nodebb.org though, probably because NodeBB is not expecting the UTF-8 version of the username.

Hi @julian,
as long as nobody cares about the according standards, the #fediverse will be a brittle nerd niche.

The according standard is IMO https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7565.html#:~:text=userpart ( #RFC7033 and #RFC7565 ) referring to https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7564#section-4.2.1.

What you find in the wild, however, is a different story as thee is no agreed upon #validator service nowhere.

Hi, hello everyone. I'm sorry to hear that I can't be followed because of my username characters. Does this mean that I can't be followed here on the forum or is it something else?
Also, should I change my username to English characters?

לאצי don't worry about it! You shouldn't have to alter your username just to suit our latin-character world

Huh. My Lemmy mobile client has the handle and host inverted. It doesn't look like this in the default web UI, though.

Also, my post from Lemmy hasn't landed here yet.

For what it's worth, I'm reading this thread from Lemmy and can see this comment of yours and access your profile, so in principle there isn't anything wrong with your username.

Hi @kichae,
fun with RTL. How is it supposed to be?

mro@digitalcourage.social the order of the Hebrew characters is correct, although I believe it should be wrapped in <bdi> tags so the rest of the line isn't affected </bdi>