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Blaze ,
@Blaze@feddit.org avatar

I see Arabic used from time to time

Live_Let_Live OP ,

In usernames?

Blaze ,
@Blaze@feddit.org avatar

Communities display names: lemmy.ca/c/maroc

I guess it could work for users display names too

AbouBenAdhem ,

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

Live_Let_Live OP ,

Is it possible to make it in other than latin?

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

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

Aatube ,

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

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

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

Aatube ,

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 OP ,

See this

ar.m.wikisource.org/wiki/تفسير_ابن_كثير

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

beautiful!

skullgiver ,
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

Looks good because URL beautifiers catch that, but the actual URL you linked is ar.m.wikisource.org/wiki/تفسير_ابن_كثير and relying on URL detection has proven to be very unreliable. For instance, Wikipedia links often lack closing parentheses, or closing parentheses and other punctuation get added to links accidentally.

Hex-encoded URLs are technically valid, but not very readable to humans.

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

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

Asudox ,
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

You won’t get non latin usernames anytime soon. But you can change the display name using non latin charactets

turkalino ,
@turkalino@lemmy.yachts avatar

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

skullgiver ,
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

ActivityPub users need to be identified by some identifier in the URL, and Lemmy chose the user name to be that identifier. As a result, non-Latin usernames become… complicated. Just the right-to-left nature of scripts like Arabic alone would break UI design. Technically you could hex encode usernames and assume them to be UTF-8, but it’d be a massive pain that’ll undoubtedly break compatibility with other services.

You can use your display name to freely enter just about any name. Usernames are almost entirely irrelevant to Lemmy as far as I’m aware; I think they only matter in mentions (although that’s a choice as well, on the ActivityPub level there’s no need to do that). The display name should cover the “it looks really cool” component. As you’ve maybe seen already, you can include names, flags, and emoji in there as well!

With the current username system, there are more possible usernames than there are grains of sand on earth, per server. I don’t think we need a bigger username pool. We may need a better way to tag people, though, but that’s also true without different character sets.

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