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Usernames are subject to the same technical restrictions as page titles (see Forbidden characters above). In particular, the symbols # < > [ ] | { } are not allowed. There are also additional restrictions: The username must not already exist in the single unified login system. It may not contain any of the symbols / @ : =.
the most common special characters, such as é, are in the character set, so code like é, although allowed, is not needed. Note that Special:Export exports using UTF-8 even if the database is encoded in ISO 8859-1, at least that was the case for the English Wikipedia, already when it used version 1.4.
The following types of usernames are not permitted due to the difficulty with some web browsers in viewing non-language Unicode characters: [3] Usernames that contain emoji. Usernames that are considered to be emoticons or otherwise "decorative". Usernames that use any non-language symbols. This includes:
The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 155,063 characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. This article includes the 1,062 characters in the Multilingual European Character Set 2 ( MES-2 ) subset, and some additional related characters.
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User names are not allowed to promote a cause, body, or stance. They simply provide a convenient way to reference an individual human user, or occasionally, an authorized bot. A person editing with an account is not treated as doing so on behalf of another body or person. (Exceptions are exceedingly rare and require approval.) Examples: