Bolded GBP Names - New Tactic For Visual Impact

[JS Girard]

I hear you say it: "What, this is preposterous! You can't put bold text in the GBP name!" Well, that was my reaction when I saw these:

After some investigation, it turns out these are not normal keyboard-inputted letters, but rather special characters from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols Unicode block. I suspected Unicode creativity, but did not know about this particular character set.

Quick tests have confirmed that this unorthodox usage seemingly does not affect direct name search at all.

What do you think? Genius idea or asking for trouble?

 

[Colan Nielsen]

I would advise against it for the reasons brought up in this article. The article is referring to the website, but the reasons are applicable to GBP profiles as well.