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

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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.

this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024

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