# Selected emoji set does not affect name field

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/selected-emoji-set-does-not-affect-name-field/90438>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [June 22, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selected-emoji-set-does-not-affect-name-field/90438 "2018-06-22T00:41:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 7:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selected-emoji-set-does-not-affect-name-field/90438/2 "2018-06-22T07:29:01Z")

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a) that’s always the way it has worked in Discourse; usernames are unicode

b) unicode emoji are not allowed in usernames here as a site policy

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