# 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")\
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**Author:** ![zengyunsi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zengyunsi/32/265722_2.png) [@zengyunsi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zengyunsi)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unicode-usernames/277878/12 "2023-09-06T14:01:43Z")

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In fact, it does not work, I have tried, because the header can not contain non-ASCII characters, you need to do an encoding conversion, but after encoding the characters, it will prompt the user name does not exist, because in the discourse on the receiving end did not restore!!

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