Hexbear's user pronouns inspired me to do the same - it's a really good idea!
It is. I wanted to do the same but there's a Lemmy bug that prevents me from changing my display name because it contains a trans flag.
oh so this is the reason I can't change it?
Yeah, probably
Do you know is it the Trans Flag/ none country flags causing the issue, or all flags?
It's any unicode character that uses the zero-width joiner or other code points that are considered "invisible". I opened an issue here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3888.
Oh fucking lord. I made the mistake of attempting to look into the characters, so I could make a PR. It's unicode, it's fucking unicode, of course it's a nightmare.
Yeah lol. It's not a very difficult fix really. Rather than checking if the string contains any invisible characters, it should check if it only contains invisible characters. The way they're doing it now unintentionally breaks a lot of stuff (breaking stuff unintentionally is a pretty common thing with unicode lol).
It's honestly easier to just check if it starts with those.
It is, yeah, which is why I suggested that in the issue :)
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