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JSRNerdo:
Is [`_`]/ a legal username for the HLP forums? It's entirely non-alphanumeric characters and contains slashes and graves so it might break things, which is why I'm wondering.

Goober5000:
The forum database is encoded in UTF-8, and we have other members with special characters in their names (the most creative probably being (†)Revenant™(†)), so from a technical standpoint it won't break things.

From a community standpoint, we don't have anyone else whose name consists purely of ASCII art.  On the one hand, I wouldn't want a swarm of emoticon usernames.  On the other hand, you're the first person to propose this in seventeen years, so that may not turn out to be a problem.

Rhymes:
Also he could have his custom text say "it's pronounced face" or whatever if clarity is an issue.

chief1983:
May not be so much about clarity as trying to use Private Messaging or Member Search.  Especially the former, you'd practically have to use member search.  But that applies to anyone with UTF-8 characters not on the keyboard.

Grizzly:
[`_`]/ is all on the keyboard right? I'm using the US international thingy

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