So… Why does this matter? Well… Imitations. For example: a player named… Player ashley, (great name I know) well, another person could create another 3 accounts that look identical.
plаyer ashley, player аshley and plаyer аshley.
(These are different…)
This isn’t great for player ashley as anybody could imitate them… Now I tried it with different zero-width characters and (thankfully) they didn’t work. Maybe it could be injected and used via js but mobile ain’t no good for that.
But yeah, overall this poses a small threat for getting people bad names and such.
As an add-on for the mods, look out that nobody is immiatating you either. That could be pretty bad. For example someone make a fake accipiter wolf (which btw @Accipiter you may want to claim for yourself to stop this from happening with normal letters >w<) then they could probably do things like get passwords e.t.c.
Yes, trying to pretend being someone else is pretty easy.
The allowed characters are for a character name are:
All unicode letters (category L) except Hangul Fillers
All unicode numbers (category N)
Characters - and '
Unicode White Space characters are converted into space and collapsed into a single space.
All other characters are stripped.
Now, that opens up for both Zalgo and other mischief.
And since I want to have a broader localization support, allowing for future realms aimed towards other languages, we will have to live with that.
However, the No identity theft rule applies. So, I think the solution is rather to make it easy for a moderator to determine who is the imposter, and…
On this note I have seen many create copy characters to be in more than one place at a time. Wonder what the position on that is. Identity theft best handled by mods but…
If you wanna play ditto waku hmu. This may be a fantasy
