Cyrillic characters in names shown incorrectly

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Authored by ghost
Jun 13, 2021
Closed Aug 21, 2021

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Hello! I have a very specific problem, when doing query if any of my players have cyrillic letters in their names, those are shown incorrectly. I believe, it is something to do with ASCII encoding and not UTF-8. For example, 'тест' becomes 'B5AB'.

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Authored by kevinkjt2000
Jun 14, 2021

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Does the fix proposed in #99 work for you?

Minecraft uses ISO 8859-1, not UTF-8. I'll add this to my list of things to document in #136.

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Authored by CoolCat467
Jun 16, 2021

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How did players get Cyrillic characters in their names anyways? Minecraft player names are forced to have between 3 and 16 characters, and only characters within the following set: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_
Cyrillic character support is not needed or required for anyone using a vanilla server, which this program is built for.

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Authored by kevinkjt2000
Jun 16, 2021

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It's possible that they are using offline accounts? Or maybe new Microsoft accounts are able to do this?
https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360050865492-Minecraft-Java-Edition-Account-Migration-FAQ?ref=launcher

Either way, what I commented earlier fixed the issue for Korean characters, so it should probably work for Cryllic characters too. Minecraft has a lot of translations, so it is not surprising to me to see that characters other than abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_ are supported.

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Authored by kevinkjt2000
Aug 21, 2021

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The OP's account appears to have been deleted and I'm tracking the documentation task in #136, so I'm going to close this issue.