# Unicode usernames and group names

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames-and-group-names/117737>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** new-feature\
**Created:** [May 14, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames-and-group-names/117737 "2019-05-14T20:18:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![marguerite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marguerite/32/120529_2.png) [@marguerite](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marguerite)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames-and-group-names/117737/5 "2019-05-15T13:47:21Z")

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I just switched my [forum](https://forum.suse.org.cn) to unicode username.

I updated discourse-username-localization to remove all the ruby stuff. (can’t wait to see you guys fix hashtags and mentions in the core, so I can abandon it completely)

And use this whitelist:

```
[\p{Han}\p{Katakana}\p{Hiragana}\p{Hangul}]

```

And update letter\_avatar service to v4.

Now it works

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