# Why isn't Hebrew usernames allowed?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-hebrew-usernames-allowed/18185>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 29, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-hebrew-usernames-allowed/18185 "2014-07-29T01:33:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-hebrew-usernames-allowed/18185/3 "2014-07-29T03:06:03Z")

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Nearly the same username rules as twitter, except we now allow up to 20 chars.

If you want full Unicode names to show, enable that preference.

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