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I wish all websites would only allow ascii characters as usernames. Having the full spectrum of Unicode available has brought nothing good.

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That is such a narrow minded idea. There are 7 billion people who don't speak English. People should be able to write in their own language and use their own names.

Same with domain names. I'm a French speaker and I don't care if I have to renounce using accents in domain names. Nobody uses them for good reasons anyway. But it makes attacks so easy, see binance. Terrible, terrible idea.

“People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎.”

— https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

Computer systems should conform to people, not the other way around. If you're terrible at detecting malicious sites, the answer isn't to force English on everyone, it's to write better systems.

> If you're terrible at detecting malicious sites, the answer isn't to force English on everyone, it's to write better systems

Yeah good idea, I'll tell my grandmother it's her fault if "bank.tld" with "CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A" instead of latin "a", and with a valid HTTPS cert, stole her banking credentials. What an idiot!

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