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I see Arabic used from time to time
In usernames?
This userβs name is displayed in Arabic, although the characters in the URL are Latin.
Looks like his username is in latin characters, but he has an arabic display name.
Is it possible to make it in other than latin?
have you ever seen a non-latin char url, ever?
the fedivere is incredibly url/dns dependent. labels/content can be any language (mbin uses weblate to allow for dozens off languages) but the underlying urls that control everything prolly require latin chars
https://ign.δΈε½ ? There's been a standard to encode it as xn-- for a while.
cool! e. cept it redirected immediately to https://www.ign.com.cn/
Welp, at least it works. It's called punycode, and some browsers have disabled it by default due to Cyrillic letters posing a security risk. For non-domains, percent-encoding is available.
Not from an ASCII
Communities display names: https://lemmy.ca/c/maroc
I guess it could work for users display names too
I believe there is still an open issue on Github for this, but no one was interested to help implement and test it. So use the search function and contribute!
You won't get non latin usernames anytime soon. But you can change the display name using non latin charactets
This thread is news to me. Unicode is Unicode, no? Why restrict to Latin letters?
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.
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.
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.
Display Name field. You can use whatever you want. Even emojis. The feature is already in Lemmy; but not every instance has it available. Lemmy.World does use it, though.