New user's name contains utf...

I have spotted a new user with name p੦j. This is p-<Gurmukhi Digit Zero>-j (http://www.codetable.net/decimal/2662) which is similar to poj. Has it requested for a password change?

re: spotify hack: https://labs.spotify.com/2013/06/18/creative-usernames/

bw, bliako

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Re: New user's name contains utf... by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 14, 2019 at 08:55 UTC
No. That user name does not contain UTF-8. It looks like an HTML-escape, since Perlmonks converts all usernames that don't really fit into ASCII into their plaintext `&#xxxx;` equivalents and renders these explicitly. Trying to register a name with a homoglyph will instead create a name containing the appropriate ampersand escape. Ampersand-escapes are always rendered with a visible ampersand and not passed through. See also tye .	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: New user's name contains utf... by haj (Vicar) on Jan 14, 2019 at 11:01 UTC
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: The news reader I'm using to monitor the perlmonks RSS feed (Gnus) also renders the user id as p੦j. The RSS feed is fine, it is the reader which gets the decoding wrong.	[reply]
Re^2: New user's name contains utf... by Anonymous Monk on Jan 14, 2019 at 09:07 UTC
I was going to post a link to tye , but fell down the rabbit hole of the links and got distracted :P	[reply]
Re: New user's name contains utf... by stevieb (Canon) on Jan 13, 2019 at 21:14 UTC
I am unsure of any vectors regarding this situation to be honest. Corion, are you around to investigate? How about any other gods? Whether it's a breach attempt or not, very, very nice eye to catch this, bliako! Update: I've `/msg gods` to have a quick look to see if there may be any nefarious happenings surrounding what you've (ie: bliako) spotted.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: New user's name contains utf... by erzuuli (Cannon) on Jan 15, 2019 at 18:40 UTC
Everything's fine.	[reply]