Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 01:47:55 EDT 2016


On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 9:32:28 AM UTC+5:30, Veek. M wrote:
> Regarding the name (From field), my name *is* Veek.M though I tend to 
> shorten it to Vek.M on Google (i think Veek was taken or some such 
> thing). Just to be clear, my parents call me something closely related 
> to Veek that is NOT Beek or Peek or Squeak or Sneak and my official name 
> is something really weird. Identity theft being what it is, I probably 
> am lying anyhow about all this, but it sounds funny so :p

Please dont take the name-police bait.
As far as I am concerned telling someone “I dont like your name” is in the same
bracket as “I don’t like your religion/skin-color/gender/nationality/etc”
Ie its highly offensive



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