The user in question just switched to a different unicode character that looks pretty much identical to the thorn symbol. AFAIK, we didn’t actually get any complaints from Icelanders, but we weren’t happy with the implementation due to its potential impact on that community. At the end of the day, we decided that this is a user problem where bans and blocks should be used instead of putting something explicitly in the code.
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victorz@lemmy.world 6 days agoOkay cool, thanks. So then that begs the question, in what way was this replacement ineffective?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 days ago
There must be an Icelandic community that complained about suddenly seeing English letters in their text codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1559
victorz@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That makes sense!