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Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed by CaptainZapp on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @11:43AM (#28540542)
I totally agree with your take, except maybe:

> That said, Æ should probably be allowed

This may cause all sorts of issues, from typing a letter to issuing a passport.

Else than that, exactly what I was thinking.

Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed by scbrg on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:08PM (#28541650)
The reason I think that maybe Æ should qualify is that it's not entirely unlikely to occur in immigrants' names anyway (or at least the lower case version). There are systems for transforming such characters to something that appears in passports - my own name has an umlaut, and I've obviously got a passport. I'm not American, so my passport is of course not issued in USA, but I suspect few countries would see a name diversity as great as USA so it can't be a new problem for the authorities there.