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Full stops and underscores should be added to the list below when editing display names.

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    IMO this should be dropped, as it can also contain weird characters I don't even know how they're called. e.g. this "name" is allowed as well: ə̷͇́̍͗ Commented Apr 2 at 7:28
  • diacritics. Occasionally useful, but I swear abused more often than not Commented Apr 2 at 7:28
  • Or even better, the bug is that such odd stuff is even allowed. It should be blocked as such names are noise and only distracting. Commented Apr 2 at 7:28
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    @ShadowWizardLoveZelda Thank you very much. Commented Apr 2 at 7:29
  • @JourneymanGeek "more often"... huh. I'll say 99.99999% abused, there's really no legit reason to use it. Commented Apr 2 at 7:29
  • @ə̷͇́̍͗ thank Peter, he used this name yesterday as a prank. (Which is in the 0.000001% legit usage. ;)) Commented Apr 2 at 7:33
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    Practically non english languages use a lot of those - and those are allowed as usernames.Sanitising those would be a lot of work, and for our non english sites, banning them would be troublesome. Commented Apr 2 at 7:40
  • @JourneymanGeek so there should be allow-list of all language sets, or even better - each non-English site will have its own allow-list. Commented Apr 2 at 7:50

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