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bizarrely, GitHub do not allow 4-byte UTF-8 sequences in the display name field specifically. sucks to be you if your name isn’t encodable in the Basic Multilingual Plane…
I’d call this decision Eurocentric but it’s uh… I mean it won’t affect most East Asians either, for example. but if you happen to have a name with a very obscure hanzi/kanji in it, or your name is from a language Unicode hadn’t gotten to in the mid-90’s, well…
GitHub is… spins the wheel of discourse queerphobic, because 🏳️⚧️ and 🏳️🌈 can’t be encoded with only 3-byte UTF-8 sequences
now that GitHub is going all-in on ML, I assume they’ll be forced to change this once the leadership realise they’ll be tortured for all eternity for failing to allow use of U+20R0K0 SYMBOL OF DEVOTION TO THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE in display names