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Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well (self.fediverse)

submitted 2 months ago by Live_Let_Live to c/fediverse

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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] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see Arabic used from time to time

[–] Live_Let_Live 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In usernames?

[–] AbouBenAdhem 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This user’s name is displayed in Arabic, although the characters in the URL are Latin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Looks like his username is in latin characters, but he has an arabic display name.

[–] Live_Let_Live -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Is it possible to make it in other than latin?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://ign.中国 ? There's been a standard to encode it as xn-- for a while.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

cool! e. cept it redirected immediately to https://www.ign.com.cn/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Live_Let_Live -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

See this

https://ar.m.wikisource.org/wiki/تفسير_ابن_كثير

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

beautiful!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Not from an ASCII

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Communities display names: https://lemmy.ca/c/maroc

I guess it could work for users display names too