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Honestly the "what encoding is this! UTF-8" is still the only thing we need to know. len(emoji) is still a corner case that few will care about.

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That's what everyone thinks, until the user sticks an emoji in the name field

No emojis (or anything else remotely exotic) in names thanks.

    /^[A-Za-z\-' ]+$/

Users can beg and grovel at my feet for every measly character beyond that puny set that they want allowed in a name field.

My anglophone Canadian brother's name is André. Even if you're fine with alienating the ~50% of the world population using non-latin writing systems, probably best to at least stick to the stuff covered by the latin1 legacy encoding.

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