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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] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.