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 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.
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.
That’s only true for platforms that only caters to the English speaking world. The fediverse should be and is much broader than that.
What? There is no major OS that does not support Unicode out of the box.
Percent encoding is perfectly fine and users won’t even see it.
Also please stop down voting twice with your alt accounts, that’s not cool.
Punycode would work here better I think as it’s plain ASCI with no special characters except a dash if I recall correctly.
Punycode is not solving the same problem. Punycode solves Unicode in domain names. Percent encoding is for Unicode in URL paths. Lemmy only needs to worry about the paths, Punycode should be “supported” out of the box without any special handling