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.
Comment on Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 months agoThis thread is news to me. Unicode is Unicode, no? Why restrict to Latin letters?
Tanoh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Asudox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because URLs need to be in ASCII. That is a standard. Check RFC 3986. Now, you can use percent encoding, but why use that. It just complicates things.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 months ago
There is a standard way to encode Unicode into URLs, it definitely doesn’t have to be ascii.