Meta:

• I tried searching for existing tickets, but none seemed relevant.
• I wasn't sure which (other) project to categorise this ticket under (none seemed applicable). I'm a relative newbie on MetaBrainz. If this “Other” project is incorrect, then I welcome admins/devs moving the ticket to the correct one.

I wished to contribute in the [Forums|http://community.metabrainz.org/}. I already had a MusicBrainz account, and was offered the possibility of using my existing MusicBrainz account via OAuth, which seemed sensible.

After completing the process, I discovered that, somehow, my username on the forums site had become “Lee_CarrÔ

I have *not* encountered such mojibake:

• within (the) MusicBrainz (website) itself.
• Nor when using OAuth for other software (Picard).
• The equivalent process on this Jira ticketing system (evidently) yielded the expected results,
• Same success on [BookBrainz]https://bookbrainz.org/editor/3757].

The mojibake seems to be only with the forums system. Yet, having used the same software on other sites, I know that it can handle non-ASCII. Hence my suspicion of the OAuth process.

Interestingly, under my MusicBrainz account's authorised applications, while others are listed, the forums are not.

My intention/hopes from this ticket:

• for the root causal problem of mishandling of Unicode/non-ASCII to be identified and resolved, to prevent recurrence
• if possible, for my forum account username to be remedied, but my account to otherwise be preserved (since I've already used it a little). Else, I'm open to discussion of what would work.

My guess, from experience of similar in the past, elsewhere, is that some string-parser is treating UTF-8 as if it were ISO 8859-1, or similar (I've not definitely confirmed that this is the specific encoding mismatch).

Given that MetaBrainz, rightly, targets an international cohort of users/contributors, this seems a silly problem to have.