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		hackuser on March 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode > I wouldn't really care how it is stored, as long as it looks right on the display It becomes a problem when you have other uses besides reading text, such as sorting or searching.

tracker1 on March 18, 2015 [–]

That's why you can normalize the input to certain UTF-8 patterns for this purpose. Same should go for passwords before hashing them.

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