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Clearly we should open up usernames to be an unlimited size set of mixed data types: e.g. the first “character” could be a hand drawn picture of a cat, the seco
by _yb2s 2y ago
Clearly we should open up usernames to be an unlimited size set of mixed data types: e.g. the first “character” could be a hand drawn picture of a cat, the second the entire text of the US constitution in unicode, and so on. We could then extend this flexibility to filenames, passwords, and Unix commands. Internally, this could involve replacing all text strings with folders on a filesystem where you can put any files you want in any desired order. /s
- adrian_b 2y agoAs already pointed in that discussion thread, there are standards for Unicode identifiers, e.g. RFC 8264 and RFC 8265. All Unicode characters have types, like letter, digit, punctuation, mathematical operator and so on. The standard for identifiers allows in identifiers only certain types of Unicode characters and it defines rules for normalization and comparison of identifiers. So rules for handling Unicode identifiers have already been defined. Whoever wants this functionality should just implement the standards. One may have opinions whether this is worthwhile or not for a certain application, but strawman arguments about cat pictures and other impossible dangers are no longer valid.
- _yb2s 2y agoApparently humor is no longer valid?