We've recently loosened up restrictions for aliases, so now nearly any Unicode character can be used in them, even a snowman:.
What you type: /alias ☃
What the room sees: 'frosty' is now known as '☃'
Combined with existing support for Unicode support in messages, this can lead to silliness:
What you type: /me <3s ❄
What the room sees: ☃
s
❄
And if you ever wonder who's hiding behind an overly clever alias, you can use the /who command.
What you type: /who ☃
What you get back: ☃ (frosty@gmail.com) (online)
P.S. More usefully, this means that non-Latin alphabet speakers can now use aliases with their preferred character set.
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