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Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wish it was allowed to have persian letter usernames maybe even symbols as usernames it looks really cool and increases the username pool as well.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You won't get non latin usernames anytime soon. But you can change the display name using non latin charactets

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

This thread is news to me. Unicode is Unicode, no? Why restrict to Latin letters?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Because URLs are usually in ASCII. That was a standard. Check RFC 1738 and 3986. Now, you can use percent encoding, but why use that. It just complicates things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

There is a standard way to encode Unicode into URLs, it definitely doesn't have to be ascii. Percent encoding is used all over the place.

EDIT: I don't mind a down vote but double down voting me from your alt @[email protected] is not cool. That's sockpuppetry/vote manipulation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

There is also the risk of homograph attacks. The link below is for domain name encoding via IDN, but the same applies to usernames. You could easily impersonate another user by having chars that look similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack