# Unicode usernames
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [September 5, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878 "2023-09-05T16:50:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Lhc\_fl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lhc_fl)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878/25 "2023-09-11T02:03:36Z")
> [@supermathie](#):
>
> Does the same call with an ASCII username work?
The answer is yes.
It seems that only non-latin usernames have problems in my case.
(This api\_key was immediately revoked by me, so there is no problem with leaking it.)
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878/26 "2023-09-11T02:29:18Z")
I’m curious to know if this particular site is installed in a different manner, perhaps another proxy in front of it?
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### Author:  [@Lhc\_fl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lhc_fl)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878/27 "2023-09-11T02:36:08Z")
It is indeed behind the proxy. I’m not sure, maybe that had an impact?
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2023, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878/28 "2023-09-11T02:44:11Z")
I suspect the proxy may be the cause.
Can you send the request direct to the real server’s IP and see what result you get back?
That’ll let us know if it’s Cloudflare interfering.
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### Author:  [@xFocus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xFocus)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878/29 "2024-11-28T15:13:49Z")
I tried and seems not working for me either
if applying `.encode()` to the chinese characters username, or `urllib.parse.quote()`
```plaintext
headers = {
'Api-Key': API_KEY,
'Api-Username': '大帅哥'.encode()
}
# or urllib parse
headers = {
'Api-Key': API_KEY,
'Api-Username': urllib.parse.quote(API_USERNAME)
}
```
I will get error
```plaintext
Failed to create post. Status code: 403
{'errors': ['您没有权限查看请求的资源。API 用户名或者密钥无效。'], 'error_type': 'invalid_access'}
```
but, without `.encode()`
```plaintext
headers = {
'Api-Key': API_KEY,
'Api-Username': '大帅哥'
}
```
I will get error
```plaintext
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(256)
```
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### Author:  [@xFocus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xFocus)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878/30 "2024-11-28T15:19:04Z")
also tried to create user name just use the encoded string `"username": "\xe5\xa4\xa7\xe5\xb8\x85\xe5\x93\xa5"`, but seems not working either as it’s not decoded properly I guess
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878/31 "2024-11-28T22:30:42Z")
What language and language version?
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### Author:  [@xFocus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xFocus)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878/32 "2024-11-29T15:07:46Z")
it’s chinese characters
not sure how to check the language version tho…
thanks Michael
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878/33 "2024-11-29T17:53:11Z")
Those questions were about the _programming_ language 😃
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