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I was surprised by this since it excludes billions of people, but then I saw it's explicitly an English-only forum



English with a limitation to ASCII. There are many words in written English or topics that are not in ASCII, though. Subreply also disallows non-ASCII names with "First name should use English alphabet".

Unicode should also work (close to) everywhere.




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