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Post #1645156

2024-11-24 08:53 UTC

I made a thing. Please do not hesitate to point me in the direction of more forms to fill. https://wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com

Replies (36)

  • @jstepien@mastodon.social i love this

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  • @arutaz@arutaz.net 2024-11-24 10:13

    @jstepien@mastodon.social I have an é in my name, and I have these problem also from time to time.

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  • @FND@hachyderm.io 2024-11-24 10:16

    @jstepien@mastodon.social 🧑‍🍳 😗👌

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  • @thm@witter.cz 2024-11-24 10:29

    @jstepien@mastodon.social hi my name is Tomáš and I've been following @yournameisinvalid@mas.to

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  • @timsk@mastodon.social 2024-11-24 10:44

    @jstepien@mastodon.social it's goddamn frustrating isn't it, not too mention insulting. I see the Co-operative Bank here in the UK have made zero progress on this since I stumbled on it ~10 years ago. 🙄 To save you the trouble, I just got two steps into the "open new account" process before this happened: "The name entered is invalid." https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/products/bank-accounts/current-account/

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  • @jstepien@mastodon.social Aber--Dein Name ist ungültig! Was machst Du eben hier??

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  • @yournameisinvalid@mas.to 2024-11-24 11:08

    @jstepien@mastodon.social Names of people cannot be invalid.

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  • @naught101@mastodon.social 2024-11-24 11:16

    @jstepien@mastodon.social what is going on with that domain name in your link? Is it a redirect?

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  • @Schrank@phpc.social 2024-11-24 11:44

    @jstepien@mastodon.social you know https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ ? 🫠

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  • @GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social 2024-11-24 11:57

    @jstepien@mastodon.social “Your name is invalid” - that’s harsh. It’s Polish, isn’t it?

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  • @nikitonsky@mastodon.online 2024-11-24 12:02

    @jstepien@mastodon.social needs an entry where Stępień is ok but Jan is “too short”

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  • @rail_@bark.lgbt 2024-11-24 12:05

    @jstepien@mastodon.social wonderful tales of my Hungarian friend named Máté can confirm <3

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  • @unbloated@mastodon.social 2024-11-24 12:24

    Oh god... Bless you for that, this is crazy.

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  • @jonn@social.doma.dev 2024-11-24 12:49

    @jstepien@mastodon.social love the footer!

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  • @stfn@fosstodon.org 2024-11-24 14:18

    @jstepien@mastodon.social the people who made those forms should be forced to zażółć gęślą jażń all day long

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  • @geist@eldritch.cafe 2024-11-24 14:44

    @jstepien@mastodon.social shit’s real. I’ve once been in the receiving end of a « security audit » for our website, and the auditor found a ✌️flaw ✌️in that we were accepting too wide a range of characters for name fields. The recommendation was to restrict to the basic [A-Za-z] set and « a few accents so that covers most names everywhere » lol In fact we should flatly forbid strings IMO.

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  • @sztupy@mastodon.scot 2024-11-24 14:51

    @jstepien@mastodon.social your url broke Tumblr :D

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  • @norbert@typo.social 2024-11-24 15:01

    @jstepien@mastodon.social Apple would be happy to accept some emoji instead of those invalid characters.

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  • @mafe@layer8.space 2024-11-24 15:44

    @jstepien@mastodon.social How dare you live in a country not limited to ASCII? 🤣 No language ever needs Hëävy Mętål Ümlãūts, yæh?

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  • @dcrooks@tech.lgbt 2024-11-24 16:05

    @jstepien@mastodon.social Are there *any* that accept it OK?

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  • @alexanderadam@ruby.social 2024-11-24 16:12

    @jstepien@mastodon.social /CC @rosa@tu.social not really related to your talk but still Unicode related. And yes, in my brain you're now also associated with "everything Unicode" since I watched your talk 😂

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  • @wingo@mastodon.social 2024-11-24 16:25

    @jstepien@mastodon.social if you were unaware, fwiw wtf-8 has another meaning https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/

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  • @jstepien@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social And you can add Mastodon link previews now 😉 (The punycode is exposed in the preview, it’s fine in the status text.)

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  • @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2024-11-24 16:58

    @jstepien@mastodon.social send GDPR inquiries to all of them ^^

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  • @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me 2024-11-24 17:03

    @jstepien@mastodon.social Forgot which one it was but there's some where compose and dead-keys do not work in JS-heavy text entries because somehow they grab keys instead of characters.

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  • @netzhexe@chaos.social 2024-11-24 19:14

    @jstepien@mastodon.social I love it! Immediately checked the form I recently handcoded, and it does accept your name… but the letters look a little wonky since the webfont has subsetting without these characters. I wonder if that’s an acceptable trade off for my tiny and usually very local websites… or should I set the font on forms to the system default? Hm 🤔 I shall experiment. Thank you!

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  • @glyph@mastodon.social 2024-11-24 19:42

    @jstepien@mastodon.social this is extremely funny but it also makes me profoundly sad. this kind of bug can cause very serious problems at e.g. border crossings, and I hope you have not been subject to that. it makes me want a sidebar that links to a lawsuit against each of these sites for the oversight, where they are legally forced to rectify this and pay damages, but I don't think that this is actually possible

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  • @funkylab@mastodon.social 2024-11-24 20:03

    @jstepien@mastodon.social the booking.com app on my phone still manages to mojibake my last name in notifications. Should have declared my name invalid right when I registered!

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  • @jstepien@mastodon.social Wait, isn't the last example on that page an error message * in Polish * rejecting a Polish name?

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  • @vivtek@indieweb.social 2024-11-24 20:07

    @jstepien@mastodon.social Untypische Symbole!

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  • @baer@bonn.social 2024-11-24 21:28

    @jstepien@mastodon.social WTF-8, I like it!

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  • @masek@infosec.exchange 2024-11-24 21:29

    @jstepien@mastodon.social Life on easy mode: name can be spelled in 7bit ASCII.

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  • @memory@m.blank.org 2024-11-25 01:17

    @jstepien@mastodon.social Chef's kiss.

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  • @wariat@mastodon.social 2024-11-25 10:04

    @jstepien@mastodon.social Dosłownie pół godziny temu dostałem tym w pysk od *tadam* https://www.mouser.pl/ tak… .pl :D

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  • @liilliil@mastodon.online 2024-11-25 11:00

    @jstepien@mastodon.social grzegorz brzęczyszczykiewicz

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  • @jstepien@mastodon.social, my favorite was a public library whose website rejected me as "mamy już czytelnika o takim imieniu i nazwisku" [= we have a reader under that name] — but they've replaced the system already.

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