# 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:** ![calmh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/calmh/32/115466_2.png) [@calmh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/calmh)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-hebrew-usernames-allowed/18185/6 "2014-07-29T11:52:25Z")

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I’d like to see full unicode usernames. _However_ note that doing this correctly is tricky and can have security implications. One needs to take care with canonicalization (same character, encoded different ways) and there is potential for user confusion (different characters, but _look_ the same).

I.e. “Α” looks very similar to “A” but is not the same from a machine point of view (one is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A and the other GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA). Are you talking to Adam or Αdam? Are you sure? 😉

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