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A lot of Japanese-based services don't let you go past 10 or 12 or 16 characters for some reason.

• pancrufty 4y ago
  12 characters oughta be enough for everyone
• cyborgx7 4y ago
  This is actually a problem plaguing old ports of Japanese video games, sometimes even to this day. The reason for this is that Japan uses a mixture of symbols that represent entire syllables (hiragana, katakana) and symbols that represent entire concepts (kanji). So they have a much higher density of information per symbol, at the expense of having a lot more symbols. Then, when the game gets localized, input fields for names and spacing for text displays are way too short for languages written in the latin alphabet. I assume it's a similar cause here.
  • jeroenhd 4y ago
    For passwords this doesn't work, as the Japanese IME requires visual feedback to pick the right characters. As far as I understand, password fields don't support foreign script very well. For other inputs like names you're definitely right, though.