It seems that some users have unusual characters or HTML in their usernames or something. But the field in the Profile only accepts a very short entry. How are they doing this?
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Unicode characters. There are also some sites on the internet specifically for this purpose. The downside is they're not pingable on Android. That's why I changed back to saner characters long ago.– M.A.R.Oct 19, 2016 at 13:35
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Related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253326/…– Shadow Wizard Is Sad And AngryOct 19, 2016 at 16:24
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There isn't much to it - they misuse some Unicode characters that look like some English letters upside down.
There are even websites that will generate the string for you:
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8˙oɟuı ǝɥʇ ɹoɟ sʞuɐɥʇ ¡ʇɐǝɹƃ ,ʎǝH - I'll still upvote instead of downvoting, though!– user291305Oct 19, 2016 at 14:13