To be clear, some really great community members have these names, but they’re everywhere now. And with the right characters you can create some really annoying overlaps: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3790
Enough of them floating around now that I’ll probably do a PR for my favorite client to filter them out.
No, I think they mean something more like Unicode compatibility form.
So 🅱️ gets normalized to
B, but “real” characters are left intact across scripts.See NFKC and NFKD form here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence