On Sun Nov 24, 2024 at 4:03 PM CET, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> writes: > > > No. I see and type my username hundreds times a day, people use it > > to address me in written and spoken conversations with it, etc. > > This is confusing the subject even more. > > Are you sure you are talking about usernames? Or is this email local > parts, chat nicknames and spoken nicks? If so, then there is no reason > you can't use utf8. Today. Without changing any username.
In many organizations the email local part matches the username[1] and it is also used in spoken conversations. To the point where I needed to make clear on internal yellow pages that I would prefer not to be called "pkern" in spoken conversation, thank you very much. So yes, usernames are pretty much used in spoken conversation. Many do not actually understand what a username is and think that it reflects how someone wants to be called - as their default assumption. Kind regards Philipp Kern PS: My personal, ignorant, Latin-world opinion is that it is probably too hard for most people to type each others' usernames if UTF-8 were to be allowed. And I would never ever use UTF-8 in a local part. And I suffered a bit too much recently looking at differences between byte count and character count. [1] Referred to as "LDAP" in mine, which is both funny and sad.
