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.
I see Arabic used from time to time
Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well
Submitted 2 months ago by Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
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Blaze@feddit.org 2 months ago
Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In usernames?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Blaze@feddit.org 2 months ago
Communities display names: lemmy.ca/c/maroc
I guess it could work for users display names too
nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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!
Asudox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You won’t get non latin usernames anytime soon. But you can change the display name using non latin charactets
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 months ago
This thread is news to me. Unicode is Unicode, no? Why restrict to Latin letters?
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.
Tanoh@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
Display Name field. You can use whatever you want. Even emojis.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 2 months ago
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 months ago
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.
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Link is detected without the emoji in my app. You might wanna hardcode the link as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/😂
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/😂](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/😂)Asudox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Using ASCII in URLs is simple and is less error prone than “supporting” unicode via percent encoding. It is also just a convention to use ASCII for usernames in many platforms. ASCII is also supported out of the box in major OSes while some unicode characters might not. What about impersonation? And what about people trying to type in the username of someone that uses unicode? It is not logical to use unicode in this case.