Comment on Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well

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SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

ActivityPub users need to be identified by some identifier in the URL, and Lemmy chose the user name to be that identifier. As a result, non-Latin usernames become… complicated.

Sorry but this is just false. URIs can easily encode UTF-8 characters and it’s perfectly standard to do so via percent-encoding. Example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/😂. Your browser will even automatically convert that 😂 into the appropriate percent-encoding.

This is, if you ask me, an unnecessary limitation in Lemmy.

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