#i dont care if a japanese or ukrainian username would be too hard to parse - everyone using the internet had to learn english for it | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mothmvn · 2 years ago

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oh how i hate the american origins of modern computers and modern coding and modern internet. i should be able to use my name in my own alphabet as a username on a website if i so wish, and it's fucked that we havent progressed beyond the english 26 letters in that regard. why does only english get to be "alphanumeric" and not a single other alphabet

#ling #thought prompted by someone on our little server with a japanese display name #convenience? yes its convenient NOW. if the outset had been different we would have a different convenient status quo #i dont care if a japanese or ukrainian username would be too hard to parse - everyone using the internet had to learn english for it #like. im so fucking mad about the definition of 'alphanumeric' in code STILL being 'ANGLOalphanumeric'. fuck.#something americans / english speakers (/ many latin alphabet enjoyers) dont have to think about: they can type their name directly always #(thoughts and prayers to diacritics and non-english characters of course 🙃 better hope your alphabet is close to English)#and this privilege is hardcoded into the foundation of every single piece of software out there so its never going to change #too many potential bugs from a blanket fix like 'treat all these unicode codepoints as alphanum' so under the hood the distinction will sta #anglocentrism at its best & most pervasive the world revolves around the english alphabet specifically. this is my hill and im dying on it #personal

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