Hello, my name is __________.

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Specific, actionable problems and fixes: MySQL silently truncates four‑byte characters so use utf8mb4 vs utf8; JavaScript treats non‑BMP characters as two code units causing regex and length bugs so watch javascript UCS-2 surrogate pitfalls; fonts cause tofu even for BMP; punctuation and casing break name handling; usernames need normalization, case‑folding and confusable/script rules. Includes a real repo of test cases and examples i18n-testing repo and references to Unicode identifier/security standards unicode identifier confusable rules.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:02OPEN SOURCE BRIDGE
3. 1:121. Unintentional bugs
4. 11:05MySQL utf8 vs. utf8mb4
5. 12:39JavaScript "characters"

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