Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
> On May 28, 2020, at 9:38 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: > > It sounds like he's learnt something really useful about the computer > representation of written characters! This page generates all manner of font variations for a name: http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=OpenStreetMap 퐎퐩퐞퐧퐒퐭퐫퐞퐞퐭퐌퐚퐩 핺햕햊햓핾햙햗햊햊햙핸햆햕 푶풑풆풏푺풕풓풆풆풕푴풂풑 퓞퓹퓮퓷퓢퓽퓻퓮퓮퓽퓜퓪퓹 핆핡핖핟핊핥핣핖핖핥필핒핡 etc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
On 28/05/2020 17:29, mbranco2 wrote: 햒햆햘햙햗햔 has all to do with mastro, because it's the surname of a student in an Italian high school where I'm teaching OSM :-) It sounds like he's learnt something really useful about the computer representation of written characters! Best Regards, Andy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
햒햆햘햙햗햔 has all to do with mastro, because it's the surname of a
student in an Italian high school where I'm teaching OSM :-)
His classroom is participating in a mapathon for UN (
https://tasks.teachosm.org/project/998), commenting changeset withs
#AAvogadroONU.
When I asked him how he registered in OSM, he told me that he likes gothic
font, and in every social he registered in that way (writing his surname in
gothic with a wordprocessor, and copying/pasting it in the registering form.
Surely I agree everyone in the world must be able to register using
characters of his language, but I supposed that the sequence to change the
font character is something different from characters in other alphabets
(sorry, I'm not an expert of character encoding, maybe this is not true).
Or maybe we could use nicknames also bolded, underlined, ...
Il giorno gio 28 mag 2020 alle ore 15:30 Martin Koppenhoefer <
dieterdre...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>
> sent from a phone
>
> On 28. May 2020, at 15:08, mbranco2 wrote:
>
> I was surprised finding an OSM username written in gothic characters: I'm
> not sure if this mailing list could show such font, the
> nickname is 햒햆햘햙햗햔 ("mastro" in normal characters).
> The problem is that, if you want to access this user profile, you've to
> copy and paste his name written with such font, searching with
> osm.org/user/mastro give no results.
>
> Isn't this an anomaly?
>
>
>
> it’s normal, we allow unicode characters for usernames, and there is no
> tolerant “search“ behind osm.org/user/username
> AGAIK it requires the exact string (maybe whitespace trimmed) that the
> mapper has used for registering.
> If the user had written in a different script which you do not have
> available on your keyboard you would have had equally to use copy+paste (or
> click on a link to the user).
>
> 햒햆햘햙햗햔 has nothing to do with mastro, although it might look as if
> it has.
>
> Cheers Martin
>
>
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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
> If there is any real problem here, it could be with people using names that > look like the names of other community members (but technically are > different) for abusive scopes Can I be Ṡtereo ? :-) -Original Message- From: Martin Koppenhoefer Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 8:38 AM To: Oleksiy Muzalyev Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?) sent from a phone > On 28. May 2020, at 17:20, Oleksiy Muzalyev > wrote: > > Practically all people in Russia studied a foreign language within the > compulsory education system. ... I am sure that typing several Latin letters > would not be a challenge. > > Besides in such disciplines as mathematics or chemistry the Latin letters are > being used widely for variables in formulas, etc. > Customarily, a keyboard with the Russian layout has got also the Latin > letters on the keys (buttons) [1]. > > I do not know exactly about Japan and China, but I guess that it is about the > same there too. I think the question is not so much whether someone not usually writing in latin characters will be able to do it, but more whether a name written in latin is suitable for them to identify with. IMHO there is great benefit in allowing unicode names, and very little problem with people using “strange looking” characters to mean something in different than what the characters are originally intended for. If there is any real problem here, it could be with people using names that look like the names of other community members (but technically are different) for abusive scopes. This shouldn’t be tolerated of course, and would be individually reacted to by the admins, if it is detected. Cheers Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
sent from a phone > On 28. May 2020, at 17:20, Oleksiy Muzalyev > wrote: > > Practically all people in Russia studied a foreign language within the > compulsory education system. ... I am sure that typing several Latin letters > would not be a challenge. > > Besides in such disciplines as mathematics or chemistry the Latin letters are > being used widely for variables in formulas, etc. > Customarily, a keyboard with the Russian layout has got also the Latin > letters on the keys (buttons) [1]. > > I do not know exactly about Japan and China, but I guess that it is about the > same there too. I think the question is not so much whether someone not usually writing in latin characters will be able to do it, but more whether a name written in latin is suitable for them to identify with. IMHO there is great benefit in allowing unicode names, and very little problem with people using “strange looking” characters to mean something in different than what the characters are originally intended for. If there is any real problem here, it could be with people using names that look like the names of other community members (but technically are different) for abusive scopes. This shouldn’t be tolerated of course, and would be individually reacted to by the admins, if it is detected. Cheers Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
Practically all people in Russia studied a foreign language within the compulsory education system. Usually it is English, French, or German. How well they may know the language is debatable, however I am sure that typing several Latin letters would not be a challenge. Besides in such disciplines as mathematics or chemistry the Latin letters are being used widely for variables in formulas, etc. Customarily, a keyboard with the Russian layout has got also the Latin letters on the keys (buttons) [1]. I do not know exactly about Japan and China, but I guess that it is about the same there too. [1] https://www.pngfind.com/pngs/m/326-3264221_russian-keyboard-layout-norwegian-keyboard-layout-windows-hd.png On 28-May-20 15:28, Maarten Deen wrote: I'm sure this is a feature that's very helpful for everyone not writing in latin script (Russia, China, Japan, etc). ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
See https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%F0%9D%96%92%F0%9D%96%86%F0%9D%96%98%F0%9D%96%99%F0%9D%96%97%F0%9D%96%94 URL-Percent-Encoding works fine, so does the involved XML. It is solely a problem of UX software. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
On 2020-05-28 15:27, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: > See case of anyone from Russia or Łukasz from Poland. or people from Germany who were not as lucky as me who had the 'ä' in the family name converted to ASCII-friendly 'ae' some generations ago already (due to a transmission error at the town hall, nobody would even have known about ASCII back in those days ...) -- hartmut ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
May 28, 2020, 15:38 by martin.zd...@freemap.sk: > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 3:34 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <> > dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> 햒햆햘햙햗햔 has nothing to do with mastro, although it might look as if it has. >> > > Google has different opinion ;-) > "햒햆햘햙햗햔 has nothing to do with mastro" seems to be something unique to Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur#Fraktur_in_Unicode ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 3:34 PM Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 햒햆햘햙햗햔 has nothing to do with mastro, although it might look as if > it has. > Google has different opinion ;-) -- Martin Ždila ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
sent from a phone
> On 28. May 2020, at 15:08, mbranco2 wrote:
>
> I was surprised finding an OSM username written in gothic characters: I'm not
> sure if this mailing list could show such font, the nickname is 햒햆햘햙햗햔
> ("mastro" in normal characters).
> The problem is that, if you want to access this user profile, you've to copy
> and paste his name written with such font, searching with osm.org/user/mastro
> give no results.
>
> Isn't this an anomaly?
it’s normal, we allow unicode characters for usernames, and there is no
tolerant “search“ behind osm.org/user/username
AGAIK it requires the exact string (maybe whitespace trimmed) that the mapper
has used for registering.
If the user had written in a different script which you do not have available
on your keyboard you would have had equally to use copy+paste (or click on a
link to the user).
햒햆햘햙햗햔 has nothing to do with mastro, although it might look as if it has.
Cheers Martin
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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
On 28/05/2020 14:02, mbranco2 wrote:
I was surprised finding an OSM username written in gothic characters:
I'm not sure if this mailing list could show such font, the
nickname is 햒햆햘햙햗햔 ("mastro" in normal characters).
The problem is that, if you want to access this user profile, you've to
copy and paste his name written with such font, searching with
osm.org/user/mastro give no results.
Isn't this an anomaly?
So we shouldn't allow people who don't use the latin
alphabet to register using names in their native language?
Tom
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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
See case of anyone from Russia or Łukasz from Poland.
Or people from China/Japan.
While banning some characters may be reasonable it is complex,
and unlikely to be very important.
May 28, 2020, 15:02 by mbran...@gmail.com:
> Hallo,
> I was surprised finding an OSM username written in gothic characters: I'm not
> sure if this mailing list could show such font, the nickname is 햒햆햘햙햗햔
> ("mastro" in normal characters).
> The problem is that, if you want to access this user profile, you've to copy
> and paste his name written with such font, searching with >
> osm.org/user/mastro > give no results.
>
> Isn't this an anomaly?
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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM nicknames are Unicode characters? (not Ascii?)
On 2020-05-28 15:02, mbranco2 wrote:
Hallo,
I was surprised finding an OSM username written in gothic characters:
I'm not sure if this mailing list could show such font, the nickname
is 햒햆햘햙햗햔 ("mastro" in normal characters).
The problem is that, if you want to access this user profile, you've
to copy and paste his name written with such font, searching with
osm.org/user/mastro [1] give no results.
Isn't this an anomaly?
I'm sure this is a feature that's very helpful for everyone not writing
in latin script (Russia, China, Japan, etc). I'm sure there are many
users that have their name written in Cyrillic or Hanzi or Kanji but I
can't give examples because I can't enter those letters.
I won't call it an anomaly but an inconvenience.
Regards,
Maarten
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Hallo,
I was surprised finding an OSM username written in gothic characters: I'm
not sure if this mailing list could show such font, the
nickname is 햒햆햘햙햗햔 ("mastro" in normal characters).
The problem is that, if you want to access this user profile, you've to
copy and paste his name written with such font, searching with
osm.org/user/mastro give no results.
Isn't this an anomaly?
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