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Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 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